>
> Yeah, I would have kept away from Seagate too, these days. They seem to
> have a reliability problem. Personnally, I had 4 of them that have
> broken in the last 6 months (out of 4), all bought in 2012. And 2 more
> on one of the servers I manage (the only one that has SATA drives), out
> of 4… (for now, the last incident was last week :) ).
+1, i have similar experience.
Stay clear of Seagate unless you want to lose your data one day...
Roman.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Marc Cousin <cousinm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/02/2015 03:03, Robert William Hutton wrote:
> > I just built a computer specifically for darktable use. It is:
> >
> > Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Socket 1150
> > ASUS H97-Pro Gamer LGA1150 ATX Motherboard
> > Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 OC 3GB
> > Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 1600 (PC3 12800)
> Desktop Memory
> > Samsung 840 EVO Series 250GB SSD
> > Seagate 3TB 7200RPM SATA3 Internal Hard Drive ST3000DM001
> > Antec True Power Classic Series 650W 80Plus Gold Power Supply
> > Antec P100 Professional Silver Mid Tower Case
> > A wireless PCI-X card and a DVD drive
> >
> > This cost me less than AUD $1500 from a local parts supplier.
> >
> > I designed this machine to be in a sweet spot between price, power
> consumption and performance. I
> > specifically bought an AMD video card as OpenCL performance is reputed
> to be better on AMD cards
> > than nVidia ones for a given price/power point. The Core i5 is the
> second-top of the line, just
> > below the overclockable "K" version. The RAM is medium speed (i.e. one
> step up from the basic one
> > in terms of latency).
> >
> > Subjectively, it's the fastest performance I've seen for dt of any
> computer I've used, which isn't
> > surprising seeing as it was specifically designed for the purpose. I'd
> say the quality of the AMD
> > proprietary drivers is below that of the nVidia ones (I'm using the ones
> that come with Ubuntu
> > 14.10, and I've heard the new ones that ATI released recently are
> significantly better, so I'm
> > hoping for an improvement when I upgrade to 15.04). I see some visual
> glitches with the chromium
> > browser and get occasional funkiness in dt where the occasional image
> thumbnail will come up black
> > (opening the image in the darkroom then switching back to lighttable
> fixes that) and I've seen one
> > image export almost completely black). These are minor, and I'm hoping
> will improve with the
> > drivers, but are something to consider as I've never seen any equivalent
> glitches with my previous
> > machines running nVidia cards.
> >
> > The case is actually really nice, plenty of ventilation, but padded on
> the inside to reduce noise,
> > and with nice conduits to allow routing of cables on either side of the
> motherboard mount plate so
> > you can keep the upper surface relatively free of cables.
> >
> > The one thing I'd do differently next time is not buying that 3TB HDD,
> check it out on here:
> >
> > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
> >
> > Otherwise it's a good machine, with the SSD and USB3 particularly making
> a huge difference to
> > subjective performance (I have my images on external USB drives). If I
> can make the time I'll do
> > some dt benchmarks and report back.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rob
> >
>
> Yeah, I would have kept away from Seagate too, these days. They seem to
> have a reliability problem. Personnally, I had 4 of them that have
> broken in the last 6 months (out of 4), all bought in 2012. And 2 more
> on one of the servers I manage (the only one that has SATA drives), out
> of 4… (for now, the last incident was last week :) ).
>
> My sample is much smaller that that of backblaze, but I usually lose one
> drive a year at home, at most. Here, I lost all those 6 drives them in 6
> months.
>
> Regards
>
>
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