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On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:37:26PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:

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> 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".
So, buying expensive drives would not be RAID, would it then? :-)
-ken

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