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Holey Harddrives, Batman! I'm gonna guess 12TB of RAIDed storage? Details, please.
Holey Harddrives, Batman! I'm gonna guess 12TB of RAIDed storage? Details, please.
Is that a Noctua PF-12 being used as a case fan?
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I also don't understand why someone would shove so many hard drives into such a small space. Honestly, I don't trust hard drives being that close to each other after I've seen how ridiculously hot they get even with a fan blowing air onto them. I recall having a hard drive start to act flaky on me, and when I tried to take it out, I couldn't. Why? It was too hot for me to handle it! After that, I leave a gap between each drive and still have fans blowing air through them.
We do things a little differently. I am not sure what fan they used but obviously its a Noctua.
One of the great things about software raid is the ability to be able to spin down drives when not in use. The case temps are very good.
Although, just because the case temps are good doesn't mean the drives don't get hot.
I wouldn't try that for a large database server that is going to be getting lots of random read/write hits from multiple connections, but for a HTPC it should be fine, few of the HD's will be active at any given time in typical usage, and then it will be mostly sequential read/writes.
I love Green drives and Red drives (5400 RPM) for storage especially for HTPC and HTPC software based servers as I think they are usually the best bang for the buck. I would gladly purchase a red drive for the extra warranty alone but probably would only spend an extra $10 or so.
That's my $.02.