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How much slower is a 5400RPM hdd for storage?

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All this RAID 0 for storage talk is scary.

If you buy a quality HDD these days and are so unlucky that it will indeed fail, it won't be a problem anyway, because then you are also unlucky enough to be struck by a clown who accidentally fell out of an airplane and won't live to care about the failed HDD. True fact.
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That is scary too.

I was doing research on SSD drive reliability when I shopping for one and I could swear in some of results there was a conclusion that reliability wasn't based on what "level" of a drive you bought. From what I have seen it's a specific model line that could have more problems than others etc....but no HD is immune and it WILL happen.

I don't put ANY trust in a HD for reliability. I am pretty happy with my 2 mirrored 2TB drives.

Just this past 6 months I have seen a 2TB, and a 500GB drive I have fail, I have a 1.5TB drive that is getting flakey.
 
zephxiii said:
All this RAID 0 for storage talk is scary.
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Yeah. It's doable. Doesn't mean anyone should. Just not really smart at all.

Let's see... let me setup a storage system that involves higher risk of failure and loss of data from hardware failure. Oh, well since there's a higher risk of data loss (which doesn't make sense to implement to begin with), let's just constantly make a bunch of backups.

Seems like more work than it's worth in this scenario. And it is.

If anyone wants a multi disk RAID setup for storage, then just go 1 or 5. 0 is just... wtf really
 
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I have Hitatchi 5K3000 3TB 5400rpm (2011) drives and Seagate 7200.11 1TB drives (~2008 I think). I cannot tell the difference between them on large file transfers (sequential read/write). Both seem to be around 120mbyte/s or so. Zero issues streaming 1080p MKV files from either drive. I think 5400rpm is fine for media storage needs, not that media storage is not the same as media manipulation (video/photo editing).

I back-up everything drives in an external eSATA enclosure which is only powered on for back-up purposes every 2 weeks.
 
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