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Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: nsafreak
And yet you are still using the old IDE interface.
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SATA is overrated... and expensive.
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Fry's had some 300 GB sata drives for $89 (no rebates either!!!) a piece a few weeks ago...

running a WD 320 GB, WD 300 GB and a Maxtor 300 GB SATA drives in my main rig, so 920 GB (almost a TB)... 🙂
 
Waiting for my second nas system (6tb sata drives) to show up. Supposed to be here this week.... (fingers crossed)
 
Originally posted by: Genx87
Very nice, what case is that?
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Its a CM Stacker with drive bays from CalPCSystems. They're really cheap. In the next upgrade, I'm replacing the drive bay things with hotsway bays...
 
Originally posted by: toant103
haaaaaaaaa haa,


Intel Fanboi
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If you're referring to me.... not true.

I have 2 AMD systems, 3 Intel systems, and 3 VIA C3 systems, in my household. When I built systems for my father's business, I built 5 AMD systems, 2 Intel systems, and 1 VIA C3 system. Variety is the spice of life.
 
Originally posted by: randomlinh
maybe i should have re-worded my post to say: what do you all do for backup for all this data? Sure, raid 5 protects if a drive fails.. but is that all you're worried about? what if the rebuild fails, or if you needed something you accidently deleted (don't go all high and might saying you never delete something by accident either, it's just a senario)?

Really just curious. I think RAID5 would be probably enough in all likelihood, but it's much too expensive to get a hardware raid 5 controller.. the one my friend had.. was slow as balls in writing.. something like 10MB/s 🙁
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I don't backup the array. For the price of the backup hardware, I could triple the capacity of my array. I do take some precautions to protect the data. Any user can write files to the array, but every morning at 3am, a cron job sets security so only the root user can modify the files. This prevents a virus or whatever from doing too much damage. This sounds restrictive, and it is, but considering the array holds video files and backups, not files that are often changed, its not a problem.

As far as deleting something accidentally, on this array, it probably wouldn't happen. Generally, a file is copied to the array, renamed, security applied, and then its just read. On my Windows servers, I use Volume Shadow Copy for that situation, plus those servers get backed up to the big server weekly.

Speed isn't an issue, really. I ran some bonnie++ benchmarks when I first assembled the arrays and got about 50mb/sec writes and over 100mb/sec reads. Hardware RAID controllers can be fast... the 7506/8506 and better 3ware cards are good, as are the Areca line of SATA raid cards.
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: Shawn
after adding the 300GB hard drive I got today from BB for $69 (after rebates), I finally have reached 1TB!
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Oh, is it *really* 1TB? List all of the drives, remember, a 200GB drive is really only 186GB and a 300GB is 279GB..
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Don't rain on my parade! According to the hard drive companies I have 1TB (200GB + 200GB + 200GB + 100GB + 300GB). 😛
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:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: JujuFish
Originally posted by: OBW96
When those Maxtor drives die next week, how much will you have?
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I've never had a Maxtor die on me.
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Thats because you likely didn't get your HD overheated when you copied over your files from one drive to another.. I've experiences many instances where if you copy eleventy billion files over from a drive your upgrading to (usually lots of small files), unless you find sufficient cooling for the drives, you better do it in 15/30GB intervals and let the drives cool down. For the most part though, it's usually the drive being written to that overheats and when that happens, (this has happened every time I do transfers of files in the eleventybillion range)data starts getting corrupted on the drive being written to so I have to stop the process and let the drives cool down and then proceed agian.

I've been ripped on by people the equivalent of and possibly was bsobel who thought I was a moron and didn't have a clue to about what I'm talking about because I "made up" something they had never heard before yet he refuses to believe a maxtor drive can run reliably if you follow these rules :roll: Just keep in mind though that this (LDDTOHS)- Large Drive Data Transfer Over Heat Syndrome, lol yes I made that up but is likely the 'best' way to refer to the issue, happens to all drives I've worked on.

So in short, like most people have spouted out here, KEEP YOUR DRIVES RUNNING COOL and this won't HAPPEN. I've got two maxtor drives that I bought (is excluding older quatum and maxtor drives from early 90s) 1 from 2000/1999 and 1 from last year, both run very well, haven't failed me yet but then agian, I never let "LDDTOHS" happen to the drive because data simply accumulated on the drive and I didn't have a need to transfer huge blocks of data at the time I recieved them.

Or how about the acronym datos (Data Transfer Over Heat Syndrome)....
Erhm...
 
I have an Apple Xserve Raid I play with at work with 14 500GB SATA's in. It has pretty good I/O and is awesome with an Oracle RAC.
 
I've been ripped on by people the equivalent of and possibly was bsobel who thought I was a moron and didn't have a clue to about what I'm talking about because I "made up" something they had never heard before yet he refuses to believe a maxtor drive can run reliably if you follow these rules :roll:
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While we all do think your a moron, I've never had a discussion with you about Maxtor drives so your thinking of someone else.

 
Originally posted by: bsobel
I've been ripped on by people the equivalent of and possibly was bsobel who thought I was a moron and didn't have a clue to about what I'm talking about because I "made up" something they had never heard before yet he refuses to believe a maxtor drive can run reliably if you follow these rules :roll:
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While we all do think your a moron, I've never had a discussion with you about Maxtor drives so your thinking of someone else.
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And I guess you will forever be known as an eliteist douche?
 
Originally posted by: judasmachine
Round Cables....................
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you have no idea how horrible round cables are to manage compared to standard ide. standard can be twisted and manipulated in any way and any space and still work fine. thats more than i can say about my dfi rounded cables. i threw them all out and took some standard ide cables from my old AT computer
 
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