On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:54 AM, rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for all the info so far. > I have gathered some components: > > Processor: i5 750 > Heatsink: ? > MB: Asus P7P55D > Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB(2x2GB) PC3-10666 > HDD: 2 x Western Digital WD5000AADS (Bulk, Caviar Green) (500GB) > Case: Antec SOLO > Fan: Nexus 120mm Real Silent case fan > DVD: Lite-On iHAS124 24xDVDRW > PSU: Seasonic S12II, 380Watt, ATX > Screen: Lenovo L1951p 19" or ThinkVision L197 19inch (1440x900) Wide > Flat Panel LCD (Analog/Digital) HDCP TCO 03,MPR-II > > Comments are welcome. > > > \r > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > As I see you are buying 2 500GB hard drives can I suggest (unfortunately at higher cost) the WD Enterprise Class RAID capable drive? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EMZPD0/ref=oss_product These drives have much longer lifetimes and are completely RAID compliant with features like time limited recovery. I tried to set up RAID1 and RAID0 with the 1TB version of the Green drives you are listing and they simply didn't work well. A lot of these Green Series drives park the heads quite quickly (to save power) but unfortunately this causes them to wear out faster. They are I think generally better suited for machines that aren't on all the time or in heavy use. Watch your SMART data if you go that way. Why 2 drives by the way? One for the system and the second for audio? Note that these RAID drives do tend to be a bit more noisy, but not terribly, and may consume more power so you'll likely need to do a bit more noise control than with the green drives. As for the DVD take a look at the Optiarc AD-7240S as a drive that seems to work very well with cdrecord and I think Linux in general. Hope this helps, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
