On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:37:26PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Saturday 11 September 2010 17:09:23 Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:09 AM, rosea grammostola > > > > <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>> Processor: i5 750 > > >> > > >> 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. > > > > > > One drive for / and /home, one for backup and audio > > > > > > The plan was not to go for RAID, but wait till the SSD gets cheaper... > > > > > > I have no experience with RAID... > > > > I was not suggesting you use RAID. I was suggesting you possibly buy > > data center drives (which happen to be RAID capable) because they have > > better specs, last longer and don't cost all that much more (as a > > percentage of the complete system cost) than green drives. Either > > drive family will likely work well for you. > > Last "special data center" hard-disks I bought failed on short before warranty > was over and the other shortly after warranty was over. > > (No data lost as they announced their fail in smart. And the important stuff is > on raid1.) > > Still I would go for two drives (and will so with my next machine). Get two > different drives and have a raid1 for the really important stuff. Why two > different? If you buy two of the exact same kind at exactly the same time, they > will also fail at the same time which reduces your data-security... And don't > try to tell me I am wrong, I've seen to many pairs of exactly-the-same drives > fail at the same time... Yeah, RAID stands for "Redudant Array of INEXPENSIVE Drives". So, buying expensive drives would not be RAID, would it then? :-) -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
