On Wed, 09 May 2012 04:52:57 -0500 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking the same thing about the speed and them lasting longer > because of the slower speed. I mean, it's less wear and less heat. > I'd just hate to buy one and it be a piece of junk or something else I > wasn't expecting to be wrong. I wish I could afford server grade. > Weeeeee!! My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore. Like cars[1], they're all good and do what it says on the box. Same with bikes[2]. A manufacturer may have some bad luck and a product range is less than perfect, but even that is quite rare and most stuff ups can be fixed with new firmware. So it's all good. For video, I would advise you invest in gobs and gobs of RAM (the stuff is dirt cheap these days). Have more RAM than the biggest video you will watch (so go for 8G minimum) and the entire video will fit in memory = read the disc once and watch. Funny lags in video just go away. That's what I did with my HP MicroServers - maxed out the RAM to 8G and bought 4 x 3T WD 5400 drives. It runs FreeNAS (built on FreeBSD) with ZFS = shove the drives in and let them software figure out what the blazes to do. Over the years I've gotten sick and tired of pampering with disk arrays and treating them like fragile china that must be molly-coddled. What I want is lots of storage that will mail me when it detects issues. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
