[LAU] New workstation | DAW pc

[rosea grammostola]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
> 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



On silentpcreview they advise 2.5" notebook disks for desktop... It's
more silent it seems...
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html

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