Daniel Pittman wrote:
Kevin Shackleton <kev...@bbsat.com.au> writes:
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:11 +1030, ishwor wrote:
Hi Jake and all,
Jake Anderson wrote:
office works is selling 1TB western digital external drives for $178.
Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive
but I bought it last month from OW and it blew up on me [the board got
fried] :(
I picked up a 1 TB SATA drive and a 5 1/4" USB / external housing with
fan for about $205. This is roomy around the drive and runs nice and
cool - a must for disc life. I passed by the "disc sauna" offerings.
Actually, temperature has very little relationship with disk life, at
least when Google studied their consumer grade disk failure metrics.
The details: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
Regards,
Daniel
Definatly get the housing with esata though
I'm only managing 25MB/sec through the usb connection, which sucks as
far as copy 700 odd Gb worth of mythv recordings off.
(all the onboard SATA ports are full as well)
a dual esata + usb connection would be best, full disk speed when you
can plug it into an esata port, but the universal nature of USB as a backup.
Thus far the external hdd seems to be working well, better than the
onboard disk controller anyway, It went boom and corrupted the file
system on 2 seperate sets of disks and 2 virtual machines on those. :-<
took out my mail and web server :-<
I really should have paid more attention to those backup messages a
while ago. It seems to be working now that i have been using rsync to do
the copy and rate limited it to 20Mb/sec
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