I've been running 4 x Samsung F1 spinpoints in a RAID5 for a few months now. Quite quiet, very fast and no problems yet *touches wood*
Can fault them so far but depending on how crucial your data is and whether you run them 24/7 it might be worth paying the premium for the WD Enterprise drives....they would probably take you well over budget though. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Lider Sent: 30 April 2009 15:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup? Although, the WDC TLER is a good feature I am concerned how WDC drive are having Firmware issues on their higher capacity drives. Yes It seems WDC is having the same issue that Seagate had (Has), just Seagate had the balls to tell the media about it. If you are looking for 1TB drive take a look at the 1st or 2nd generation of the Samsung Spinpoint drives. I have only have had a hand full of the drives come in for recovery and they were relatively easy to repair, not like the Seagate or WDC drives. Just my 2 copper of info, Tim Lider Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com mailto:[email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Fisk Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup? I'm looking for something relatively inexpensive, quiet and cool to put into my system to take over for a 250GB and 350GB drive I have that aren't in raid. I'm thinking 2x 1TB drives and setting them up as RAID-1. It's going into my system which has 4 drives relatively close together. The WD Caviar I was looking at for $104 at newegg has some feature called deep recovery cycle which causes it to drop out of raid. http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid= 1397 &p_created=1131638613 I'd prefer to pay as close to $200 as possible for the 2 drives, but if I can't get anything that low or any quality for that low of a price, I'm willing to go higher. What do you guys recommend now for drives? I've got a pair of seagate 7200.11 750GB drives in this computer, I suppose I could go with another pair of those, I've been happy with them but they aren't super fast or quiet. Christopher Fisk -- BOFH Excuse #205: Quantum dynamics are affecting the transistors -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person. Clifford Chance LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England & Wales under number OC323571. The firm's registered office and principal place of business is at 10 Upper Bank Street, London, E14 5JJ. For further details, including a list of members and their professional qualifications, see our website at www.cliffordchance.com. The firm uses the word 'partner' to refer to a member of Clifford Chance LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. The firm is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The Authority's rules can be accessed by clicking on the following link: http://www.sra.org.uk/code-of-conduct.page Clifford Chance as a global firm regularly shares client and/or matter-related data among its different offices and support entities in strict compliance with internal control policies and statutory requirements. Incoming and outgoing email communications may be monitored by Clifford Chance, as permitted by applicable law and regulations. For further information about Clifford Chance please see our website at http://www.cliffordchance.com or refer to any Clifford Chance office.
