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WD HDD Industry Will Be Supply Constrained Due to Thailand Flooding
kitamesume:
well i was just thinking if 2TB of laptop HDDs has less death rate than the 2TB desktop HDDs, since portability means they need extra durability, well i guess my logic on that was wrong.
Pentium100:
Since laptop HDDs are more expensive than desktop ones if you want reliability, you might as well buy server HDDs.
nstgc:
--- Quote from: Pentium100 on December 01, 2011, 12:50:04 AM ---Since laptop HDDs are more expensive than desktop ones if you want reliability, you might as well buy server HDDs.
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Thats what I would suggest as well. I would like to buy some WD RE4s, but they are expensive. Even then they aren't guaranteed to work properly. I would suggest just getting some inexpensive drives and set them up in a RAID. Thats what I've done. I actually had one of my Samsung F3's die on me, but its okay since it was in a RAID 1 configuration. Replaced it, everything happy.
[edit] Note that of the 8 Samsung drives I've owned only 1 has ever given me problems. This is in contrast to Seagate's ~50% failure rate and WD's ~30%. Samsung will be missed.
kitamesume:
well i was planning to setup a portable storage unit. since i got a sleeping rig here, might as well convert it to one. so the 3options are, cheap HDDs in raid-10 array(sadly it doesn't have onboard raid), a bunch of laptop HDDs to save space, or the more unlikely server HDDs. btw, this'll take me a few months or years to accomplish, i havent even bought a new SSD yet -,-
Proin Drakenzol:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on December 01, 2011, 01:57:13 AM ---well i was planning to setup a portable storage unit. since i got a sleeping rig here, might as well convert it to one. so the 3options are, cheap HDDs in raid-10 array(sadly it doesn't have onboard raid), a bunch of laptop HDDs to save space, or the more unlikely server HDDs. btw, this'll take me a few months or years to accomplish, i havent even bought a new SSD yet -,-
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*twitch* In almost every instance of someone setting up a *10, a *5 would be better. Or a RAID-6 for more than, say, 8 drives in the array.
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