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On Wed, 09 May 2012 04:52:57 -0500 |
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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I was thinking the same thing about the speed and them lasting longer |
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> because of the slower speed. I mean, it's less wear and less heat. |
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> I'd just hate to buy one and it be a piece of junk or something else I |
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> wasn't expecting to be wrong. I wish I could afford server grade. |
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> Weeeeee!! |
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My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore. |
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Like cars[1], they're all good and do what it says on the box. Same |
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with bikes[2]. |
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A manufacturer may have some bad luck and a product range is less than |
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perfect, but even that is quite rare and most stuff ups can be fixed |
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with new firmware. So it's all good. |
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For video, I would advise you invest in gobs and gobs of RAM (the stuff |
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is dirt cheap these days). Have more RAM than the biggest video you |
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will watch (so go for 8G minimum) and the entire video will fit in |
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memory = read the disc once and watch. |
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Funny lags in video just go away. That's what I did with my HP |
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MicroServers - maxed out the RAM to 8G and bought 4 x 3T WD 5400 |
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drives. It runs FreeNAS (built on FreeBSD) with ZFS = shove the drives |
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in and let them software figure out what the blazes to do. Over the |
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years I've gotten sick and tired of pampering with disk arrays and |
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treating them like fragile china that must be molly-coddled. What I |
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want is lots of storage that will mail me when it detects issues. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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