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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wed, 09 May 2012 03:47:09 -0500 |
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> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my |
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>> videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing |
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>> these "green" drives that are made by just about every company |
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>> nowadays. When comparing them to a non "green" drive, do they hold up |
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>> as good? Are they as dependable as a plain drive? I guess they are |
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>> more efficient and I get that but do they break quicker, more often |
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>> or no difference? |
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>> I have noticed that they tend to spin slower and are cheaper. That |
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>> much I have figured out. Other than that, I can't see any other |
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>> difference. Data speeds seem to be about the same. |
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>> Please, no brand wars. I may get a WD, Maxtor, Samsung or some other |
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>> brand. I haven't picked that part yet. So far, I have had good luck |
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>> with drives. I think I have one doorstop so far. I have at least one |
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>> of each of the brands above too. Don't jinx me. I'm sure someone |
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>> has a horror story about some brand. |
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> Green drives are basically just low power drives. It's a branding |
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> gimmick. Like you noticed already, they tend to spin slower (uses less |
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> power). |
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> I stuck 4 of them in my media server for 12TB of cheap storage. And |
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> they are silent. I can barely hear them running even when I'm sitting |
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> next to the server and the kids are running the telly full tilt :-) |
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> I haven't heard any mention from anyone at all that they are less |
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> reliable in any way. I'd expect them to be more reliable than |
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> super-fast drives because they are lower power, but drive models have |
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> so many things affecting reliability it's hard to tell. |
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> One thing we have noticed is that Samsung's recent model are not very |
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> "green", they spin up slowly, use lots of power and make a racket when |
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> spinning. But they do work. |
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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. I'd |
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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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I'm going to give this a shot. It's not like the OS is on it and I will |
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be putting a lot of wear on it or be making those heads sing. It's just |
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going to store videos, music and other stuff. I plan to set it up with |
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LVM and put /home on it. Then I'm going to get rid of this legacy /data |
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directory I have been carrying around for the past 7 or 8 years. Just |
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put it all in /home where it should have been to begin with. |
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I also forgot to mention, this rig runs 24/7 for the most part. It's |
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usually only off when the power has failed and my UPS is a bit low. |
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I'll be glad when they get our new wires ran for power. They been |
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working on it for at least a month. It's ONLY 12 miles or so. ;-) |
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They are replacing poles, wires, hardware and everything. I been here |
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for 40 years, I have never seen them replace all this. Bad thing is, |
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the lights go out when they do a major switch over. I bet the lines |
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won't be breaking so much when this is done, at least not until some nut |
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wrecks and hits the stinking pole. :/ |
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Thanks for the info. At least I know it won't be junk. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |