[LAU] New workstation | DAW pc

[rosea grammostola]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
<nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 15:12 +0200, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, rosea grammostola wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Kjetil S. Matheussen
>> > <k.s.matheussen at notam02.no> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> rosea grammostola:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks for all the info so far.
>> >>> I have gathered some components:
>> >>>
>> >>> Processor: i5 750
>> >>> Heatsink: ?
>> >>> MB: Asus P7P55D
>> >>> Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB(2x2GB) PC3-10666
>> >>> HDD: 2 x Western Digital WD5000AADS (Bulk, Caviar Green) (500GB)
>> >>> Case: Antec SOLO
>> >>> Fan: Nexus 120mm Real Silent case fan
>> >>> DVD: Lite-On iHAS124 24xDVDRW
>> >>> PSU: Seasonic S12II, 380Watt, ATX
>> >>> Screen: Lenovo L1951p 19" or ThinkVision L197 19inch (1440x900) Wide
>> >>> Flat Panel LCD (Analog/Digital) HDCP TCO 03,MPR-II
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> That cabinet has the PSU placed at the top.
>> >> If you want a silent case, but one which is cheaper
>> >> than antec p183, maybe fractal design could
>> >> be an alternative?
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Also, I would buy one harddrive at 1GB instead of two at 500GB.
>> >> Harddrives these days are so fast anyway, that you probably don't
>> >> need to run RAID or anything for multitracking. (Even the
>> >> slowest HD should be more than fast enough.)
>> >> In your setup, the harddrive is also likely to make the most
>> >> noise. (not because the ones you have picked is noisy, quite
>> >> the contrary, but because the other parts should be quite silent)
>> >
>> > True, but how do you backup your stuff?
>>
>> Oh, I don't. :-) When using plain ext2/3/4 file systems you
>> receive hints (strange pauses, eventually a random file is
>> corrupted) that something is wrong long before everything is lost.
>> I've never lost anything important, but have replaced
>> my HD many times.
>
> It depends on your luck, in my experience it is not always like that. I
> have seen drives that develop bad sectors and you can migrate from them
> (minus the bad sectors, of course).
>
> In other instances the warning is just minutes away from complete
> failure[*]. "smartctl" is not useful in those (most) cases. I have also
> had drives fail on power up - everything is fine until you turn them
> off, and then it they are just dead with a periodic click of death.
>
> So, backup backup and backup, and if the data is really important
> (think: what would I do if it is gone?) keep an up to date copy
> off-site.
>
> -- Fernando
>
> [*] for example: "oh, that's odd, firefox just segfaulted ... and a
> minute later nothing works and then your are puzzled and then you
> realize the hard disk is gone".
>
>
>

Hmm a other way might be a backup via network? Having some data
storing device in the home network...
We have several pc's running here, so it might be a good thing. On the
other hand... the energy bill was pretty dissapointing this year... I
don't know what is better in respect to energy usage.

\r