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external HD question
Takeshi:
Some time ago I tried re-formatting using the regular one when I was installing XP. The installation stopped because my HDD either got too warm or because the formatting hit a bad sector.
It's just.. it takes sooo looong with regular re-format, especially if you've got a 1TB.
SomeoneElse:
--- Quote from: shadowmaniac on October 14, 2009, 07:49:43 PM ---Most ppl use SSD drives to "host" their OS and any other applications that they use often and/or online games as it provides *MUCH* faster read/write times than "ordinary" HDDs.
I suggest you keep one of those drives and sell the other 2. With that money, you can go and buy 3-5 external 1TB HDDs. :)
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Wat??? nono... you want to do a RAID 5 array.... trust me, this is especially true since SSD drives are more prone to data loss due to limited write cycles of about 1000-10000 per memory unit.
Windows7's SSD optimization, and exFAT will help, but it is still better to be safe than sorry... and you can have a whole disk fail on a Raid5 array and still survive it...
Mikan:
I'm aware a RAID 5 array keeps backups of the hdd's on every disk, But I dont think a Raid 5 is best for that im trying to do, even though SSD's are more prone to dataloss the speed is what I need for running multiple tasking programs (Such as Animation Master, Autodesk programs, etc).
Xtras:
General rule of thumb: Limit purchases to WD, Seagate and Samsung. If one of those fails on you, you probably moved or used it too much; or you were just unlucky.
SomeoneElse:
--- Quote from: Mikan on October 15, 2009, 11:59:11 PM ---I'm aware a RAID 5 array keeps backups of the hdd's on every disk, But I dont think a Raid 5 is best for that im trying to do, even though SSD's are more prone to dataloss the speed is what I need for running multiple tasking programs (Such as Animation Master, Autodesk programs, etc).
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Well, Which is more important to you reading or writing? Because there are RAID arrays to maximize speed for one or the other... think of it this way... you want to write fast, you can stripe the data across two discs with no backup, that way the writing is half on one, half on the other, and done twice as fast... or with three drives, thrice as fast... You want to read quick, then you want to have the data written in tandem to two or more drives the same idea you read a bit from here a bit from there, done twice as fast...
in a high volume rendering environment, you would be reading and writing to arrays setup specially to handle fast reading or fast writing, with the data then moved to storage on a RAID6
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