[H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Brian Weeden
Looking to replace the 250 GB drives in my RAID 5 HTPC array with 1 TB ones. The Seagates in there now have been champs and really hoping I can get the same performance out of the new drives. I was going to go with the WD GreenPower line as they seem to be out the longest and hopefully have had

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Greg Sevart
Of Brian Weeden Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 6:54 AM To: hwg Subject: [H] 1 TB drives? Looking to replace the 250 GB drives in my RAID 5 HTPC array with 1 TB ones. The Seagates in there now have been champs and really hoping I can get the same performance out of the new drives. I was going

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
bundled with the sammy and it apparently is antiquated and messes up the drive. My response is huh? people still use disk utilities? Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 07:53:32 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] 1 TB drives? Looking to replace the 250 GB drives

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Brian Weeden
in this order: WD Black 1TB WD1001FALS Samsung F1 Seagate 7200.11 Hitachi 7K1000 WD GP-RE2 WD-GP Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 6:54 AM To: hwg Subject: [H] 1 TB drives

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Brian Weeden
Question - when a RAID card says 2 internal ports what are those used for? Chaining multiple cards together? This one is an example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103086 but at the bottom it says it has 8 SATA connectors. --- Brian

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Greg Sevart
] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 11:30 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] 1 TB drives? Question - when a RAID card says 2 internal ports what are those used for? Chaining multiple cards together? This one

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Brian Weeden
then use fan-out cables (looks like it comes with some) to connect to 8 individual drives. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 11:30 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] 1

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Greg Sevart
I'm currently using an LSI MegaRAID 150-6 and it has served me well but has a max volume size of 2TB, is PCI-X (and I'm using a mobo without one of those), and has limited cache. So I'm looking to upgrade. Requirements are PCI Express, on the fly capacity expansion, and SATA-II with at

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Winterlight
t looks like the WD Black WD1001FALS is becoming available now, but if you're looking for something that's been out for a while and proven--this isn't it. Yeah, when you are talking 1TB of your data this becomes the most important issue. A drive of this size is difficult to keep backed up

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread Greg Sevart
t looks like the WD Black WD1001FALS is becoming available now, but if you're looking for something that's been out for a while and proven-- this isn't it. Yeah, when you are talking 1TB of your data this becomes the most important issue. A drive of this size is difficult to keep backed

Re: [H] 1 TB drives?

2008-07-06 Thread John Steinbruner
I would tend to agree. The WD 640 has proven to be a really nice, quiet, cool running, and reliable drive, so adding a 3rd platter to make a 1 TB drive model makes sense. :) I was gonna get 2 of the 640's for a NAS box running Raid 1, but I might get 2 of the 1 terabyte models instead.