10 Sep
2010
10 Sep
'10
7:45 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:54 AM, rosea grammostola
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
Comments are welcome.
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As I see you are buying 2 500GB hard drives can I suggest
(unfortunately at higher cost) the WD Enterprise Class RAID capable
drive?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EMZPD0/ref=oss_product
These drives have much longer lifetimes and are completely RAID
compliant with features like time limited recovery.
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.
As for the DVD take a look at the Optiarc AD-7240S as a drive that
seems to work very well with cdrecord and I think Linux in general.
Hope this helps,
Mark