On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 On silentpcreview they advise 2.5" notebook disks for desktop... It's more silent it seems... http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html \r _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
