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Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, [email protected] wrote:
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.
Yeah, about $100 over budget, on a $200 budget is a lot.
-----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
