On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2010 17:09:23 Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:09 AM, rosea grammostola
>>
>> <rosea.grammostola@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@email-addr-hidden> 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...
Do you guys backup only your /home folder and personal files/
documents, or the root ( / ) system also?
\r
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