11 Sep
2010
11 Sep
'10
7:11 p.m.
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 15:12 +0200, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, rosea grammostola wrote:
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".
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Kjetil S.
Matheussen
<k.s.matheussen(a)notam02.no> wrote:
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.
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?