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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with |
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> was data center setups where - the power has never gone off for 6 |
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> years - the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after |
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> year - the servers were the nice big ones Dell makes with awesome |
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> cooling - the data center feels like a fridge and the ambient temp |
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> never varies more than 1 deg - the server power supplies are seriously |
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> high grade, the 5V and 12V out of them are solid and do not fluctuate |
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> at all Add all this up and it's an almost perfect environment for |
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> drives to last a long time. You don't have that, not even close. I |
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> have only 1 little bit of anecdotal data: my nas at home has 4 x 3T WD |
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> Green drives in it, going on almost 2 years now. My kids hammer the |
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> blazes out of that thing, and ZFS scrubs keep it real busy when the |
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> kids don't. And those drives just keep on turning and turning and |
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> turning, I didn't do anything special. I put it down to statistics - |
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> no-one makes bad drives (or cars) these days and I haven't pulled the |
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> unlucky card yet. I dunno, go figure |
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Well, it does make good points tho. I keep my room here pretty cool. |
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It's not as cool as your data center but I have a window A/C and my own |
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heater. I don't mind it being a little cool in the winter but don't |
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like it warm in the summer either. The cooler the better. |
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I also have the Cooler Master HAF-932 case with those really nice large |
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fans. The hard drives are right in front of the front intake fan. I |
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have a power supply that is really to big for what I have running. I |
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can't recall the brand and wattage just that it doesn't pull near as |
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much power as I thought it would. It pulls less than half what my older |
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and much slower puter pulled. Also, I rarely shut this thing down. I |
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did the other night to unplug/re-plug all the cables but other than |
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that, it is usually because I have lost power from the mains. |
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So, keep them cool, good clean power and leave them running when ya |
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can. Sounds like a plan. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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