I know it's been a while, but with the new job kicking into high gear, I've been extremely busy and on top of that, one of my best friends is back in town as he transfers from Groton, CT to Bremerton, WA in the Navy. So when I'm not at work (which isn't that often as I'm working 10+ hours/day), I'm hanging out with friends and thusly, don't have much time for the blog.
But over the weekend, I ordered a nice new hard drive as linked below. It's the Maxtor Maxline III 300 GB drive with the SATA150 interface. I got it yesterday, hooked it up and it works like a charm. So well in fact, I ordered three more today. This morning, I copied three DVD images over from my main Raptor drive to the Maxline drive in under 8 minutes. I never transferred 20 gigs in 8 minutes before and it's great.
Also, the drive noise is not noticeable in the computer - mostly because of the nice Antec P160 case I have which dampens hard drive vibrations, but also because of the other computers running in my room right now. So, three more are on the way and will most likely be here next Monday.
The three drives will be combined with the first Maxline (after I back it up to my NAS (network attached storage) device and then put in a RAID5 configuration. While the RAID5 effectively only gives you the space of 3 of the 4 drives, it provides redundancy, so if one drive fails, you lose no data. Replace the drive and you're up and running with full redundancy again. Of course, backups still need to be made in case something in the case blows up or something and takes more than one drive down at a time.
So the 1,200 GB (1.2 TB) of storage will be only 900 GB after the RAID5 formatting, and even less after the NTFS file system takes up space with the clusters (837 GB to be exact), and I'll be just short of the 1TB in my computer. My Raptor is 74 GB, bringing me up to a theoretical 974 GB...just 26 GB short. But for ~500, 900 gigs will serve me just fine. If I really had all the money in the world at my disposal, I probably would have gone with 4 Hitachi 500 GB drives in a RAID5 config for 1.5 usable TB, but I have no experience with Hitachis and I've had ZERO problems with Maxtors (knock on wood). And the Hitachis are $375/each - the Maxtors were $136/each after tax & shipping. Much better bang for the buck - the Hitachis are exactly $1/GB in RAID5 whereas the Maxtors are $0.60/GB).
Ahh...can't wait. Next paycheck: Dell 20.1" Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor (I'm composing this on three and it's heaven).
URL: Newegg.com: Maxtor Maxline III 300 GB
But over the weekend, I ordered a nice new hard drive as linked below. It's the Maxtor Maxline III 300 GB drive with the SATA150 interface. I got it yesterday, hooked it up and it works like a charm. So well in fact, I ordered three more today. This morning, I copied three DVD images over from my main Raptor drive to the Maxline drive in under 8 minutes. I never transferred 20 gigs in 8 minutes before and it's great.
Also, the drive noise is not noticeable in the computer - mostly because of the nice Antec P160 case I have which dampens hard drive vibrations, but also because of the other computers running in my room right now. So, three more are on the way and will most likely be here next Monday.
The three drives will be combined with the first Maxline (after I back it up to my NAS (network attached storage) device and then put in a RAID5 configuration. While the RAID5 effectively only gives you the space of 3 of the 4 drives, it provides redundancy, so if one drive fails, you lose no data. Replace the drive and you're up and running with full redundancy again. Of course, backups still need to be made in case something in the case blows up or something and takes more than one drive down at a time.
So the 1,200 GB (1.2 TB) of storage will be only 900 GB after the RAID5 formatting, and even less after the NTFS file system takes up space with the clusters (837 GB to be exact), and I'll be just short of the 1TB in my computer. My Raptor is 74 GB, bringing me up to a theoretical 974 GB...just 26 GB short. But for ~500, 900 gigs will serve me just fine. If I really had all the money in the world at my disposal, I probably would have gone with 4 Hitachi 500 GB drives in a RAID5 config for 1.5 usable TB, but I have no experience with Hitachis and I've had ZERO problems with Maxtors (knock on wood). And the Hitachis are $375/each - the Maxtors were $136/each after tax & shipping. Much better bang for the buck - the Hitachis are exactly $1/GB in RAID5 whereas the Maxtors are $0.60/GB).
Ahh...can't wait. Next paycheck: Dell 20.1" Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor (I'm composing this on three and it's heaven).
URL: Newegg.com: Maxtor Maxline III 300 GB
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