Hard disc confusopoly
Oct. 26th, 2008 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I have run out of disc space; I have a spare hot-swap disc bay in my computer; I'd like to put a 1TB disc in it.
www.scan.co.uk list thirteen models of 1TB SATA hard disc, ranging in price from £77 to £165, with no idea as to what differentiates them. I currently have three Seagate drives and a WD drive, so diversification suggests the cheaper Hitachi one, but that's a justification not much better than writing down the list and using a pin.
Given my curse, I wonder if I should buy two 1TB drives from different manufacturers and keep them as a RAID1.
www.scan.co.uk list thirteen models of 1TB SATA hard disc, ranging in price from £77 to £165, with no idea as to what differentiates them. I currently have three Seagate drives and a WD drive, so diversification suggests the cheaper Hitachi one, but that's a justification not much better than writing down the list and using a pin.
Given my curse, I wonder if I should buy two 1TB drives from different manufacturers and keep them as a RAID1.
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Date: 2008-10-26 12:06 pm (UTC)The WD Green Power ones will save you 2-3 quid/year in electricity costs I think. They definitely use less, and when you have half a dozen in a server it's a noticeable change.
Shame they don't do 1.5TB yet.
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Date: 2008-10-26 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-27 11:47 am (UTC)I've bought 46 of the 1.5TB drives to store the work MP3 collection. We have to consider the overhead of one server for every 4 drives, so the price difference is totally negligible. Anyway, that's a totally different situation than yours.
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Date: 2008-10-27 11:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-26 01:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-26 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-26 10:52 pm (UTC)I'm a bit surprised that none of the usual-suspects hardware sites have done a round-up review of terabyte discs.
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Date: 2008-10-26 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-11 09:33 pm (UTC)