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Ken Restivo wrote:

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> 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

>>>

>>>  wrote:

>>>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mark Knecht  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".

I've always her it was "Disks". ;-)
> So, buying expensive drives would not be RAID, would it then? :-)
It would be the opposite of RAID: a SLED (Single Large Expensive Disk).
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David

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