[LAU] New workstation | DAW pc

[Ken Restivo]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:37:26PM +0200, Arnold Krille 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> 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