haunyack;216613 Wrote: > Hot - any drive runs warm without proper ventilation.
10,000 RPM drives tend to run hotter than 7200 RPM drives. That's a unavoidable byproduct of the higher spindle speed. If they were widely available, for music storage I'd recommend going in the opposite direction and using 5400RPM drives. More than fast enough for anything a music server will ask of them, and would be both cooler and quieter than faster drives. > Noisy - my case fan emits more noise than 4 Raptors together. Disk seeks from my Raptors are all considerably more noisy than any of the 7200 RPM drives that I use. Also, many people with dog ears will hear the higher pitched whine produced by the higher rotatational speed. > Pricey per gigabyte - cheap drives = low mttf,loss of data,replacement > expense on failure. I certainly wouldn't characterize the Raptors as enterprise class drives. I'd never remotely consider one as a replacement for SCSI or SAS drives in a mission critical server. Whether they occupy a niche space somewhere between that and desktop drives is debatable. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37039 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
