InorganicMatter
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Well, the last Maxtor drive in my hodge-podge RAID-5 array finally died. I'm never buying a Maxtor drive again, every single one that was originally in this array died, and the WD ones are still going strong!
Anyway, right now I've got a mix of 300, 400, and 500 GB disks that are slopped together in a RAID-5 on an awesome Intel SAS card that I got free from work. I want to put a few nice disks on here that will cut the power usage, heat output, noise creation, etc.
I figure that 3x1TB disks gets me way more space than I have now, and cuts the number of disks in here from 7 to 3. But I dunno anything about disks any more because I haven't kept up with the tech. Do 1TB disks have the best $$$/GB ratio right now? Better ideas? I was looking at these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...96 1035424340 1035507776 4027&name=$75 - $100
That seems to get me a 2TB array for around $250, and I can expand it up to 7TB in the future by adding more disks. Is there a better route?
Anyway, right now I've got a mix of 300, 400, and 500 GB disks that are slopped together in a RAID-5 on an awesome Intel SAS card that I got free from work. I want to put a few nice disks on here that will cut the power usage, heat output, noise creation, etc.
I figure that 3x1TB disks gets me way more space than I have now, and cuts the number of disks in here from 7 to 3. But I dunno anything about disks any more because I haven't kept up with the tech. Do 1TB disks have the best $$$/GB ratio right now? Better ideas? I was looking at these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...96 1035424340 1035507776 4027&name=$75 - $100
That seems to get me a 2TB array for around $250, and I can expand it up to 7TB in the future by adding more disks. Is there a better route?