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eSATA and Harddrives
I am going to be purchasing the SeriTek/2eVEN4 eSATA enclosure. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what harddrives to put into the enclosure? I am looking at getting a terabite of space. Is there a problem with putting 4 250G hard drives in this enclosure to get a Terabite over getting 2 500G? It would be cheaper in the short run to do the 4 250G drives, and I know in the future if I wanted to upgrade, I would have to take out a drive. I guess my main question is would filling up the Array with 4 drives to get 1TB cause any problems?
Thanks
Art K -
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Art,
I have their 2-drive Seritek setup myself and its great. Check out Maxline III 250gb SATA drives at http://www.newegg.com. These are Maxtor’s “enterprise” drives with 16mg cache and a 5-year warranty, and rated faster than Seagate and Hitachi. Newegg has them for only $104.99, the best price on the web. And, they’re is no problem at all using 4 drives to create a 1 terrabyte stripe set.
BTW, newegg has 300gb Maxline SATA drives for only $125 each…
DRW
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That’s the same system we use at our place. Works great. Newegg and Firmtek have both saved us a fortune.
Sean
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We use firmtek . Its awesome.
More so with the Western digital Caviar 320GB drives. They are better. I think if not better same as Maxtor whihc David is saying.
Western Digital Drives are better than all of them
regards
Mody -
Here’s my two cents worth…..
Hitachti drives are the best and the fastest for the buck. I have two towers raided together and I am able to edit in 10-bit uncompressed HD without any problems was so ever…..
I have heard too many horror stories with the rest of the drive manufacturers. Hitachti drives are made to be the best and fastest.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions -
lets go over why you would want one configuration of the next— most raid configurations tend to be very similar in data rate when all things are matched up(number of drives, etc…)
Number of spindles and speed of the drives are the main factor for a raid configuration. 4 250’s in theory should give you a faster data rate than the 2 500’s based on how a raid configuration works- (writing to all drives at one time) — if it can spread the date out on to more drives than you can hit it with more data at a faster rate, meaning you might be able to drop some HD on it(compressed i’m sure… but nonetheless better than the alternative)— There are plenty of sites that can go further on this, but i’m sure you have plenty to go on already-
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[Wayne Carey] “Hitachti drives are the best and the fastest for the buck.”
Wayne,
I’m sure your Hitachi drives work quite well, but they are not the fastest, and therefore one would tend to doubt your claim that they are indeed the best. As I stated before, tests comparing comparable Maxline, Seagate, Westen Digital, and Hitachi show the Maxline drives to be clearly the fastest. Check out the following, it compares everything except Seagate (another test I can’t find right now includes Seagates): https://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2094&p=12 .
DRW
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Mody,
See my post below. I posted a link to a test that used WD Raptor drives, which I believe are their fastest drives. Maxline beats them. Meanwhile, hard drives are a little like golf clubs, whatever gives you confidence is the best for you…
DRW
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