Hard Drives

[NickPapageorgio]

I ordered two 1.5 TB HDs with the original intention of using them in Raid 1.

I am seriously considering buying four 750-1TB hard drives and using them in raid 5.

(btw, I am using a Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (bare drive) for my OS and main programs)

Opinions???

 

[Datalyss]

Frak me! What do you need all that space for?

 

[Michowski]

Frak me! What do you need all that space for?

Showing off

 

[saltynay]

As i said on your profile the 750gb is the best price per gb if you keep the cheapest drives I think they were Western digital when I checked earlier but you can see for yourself.

4x750gb drives = 2.25tb of usable space with one drive lost as a striped redundancy across all drives. If one of the drives fails you can rebuild the array with the remaining 3 other drives. If 2 drives are lost at the same time then you will most likely of lost the data across all drives in the raid array.

I would use the 4x750gb personally I worked out it was
1.5tb= $11.5 per gb
1tb= $10 per gb
750gb&500gb = $8.3333**** per gb

This was worked out by saying 1tb= 1000gb which is ofcourse not true but easier for calculation. The price per gb for the tb+ drives would be higher then I put above but as I did the same calculation for both the results are valid for comparison.

 

[Hefemeister]

Keep in mind you can run a raid 5 with only 3 disk drives. With that said the 750gb drives are the best bang for the buck. 3 750's in raid 5 would net you 1.5tb.

As for using 1.5tb of drive space I have well over 1tb used on my system. Once you start dealing with video the bytes go quickly. The more the better imo.

 

[saltynay]

Its a minimum of 3 drives I am sure as I had a raid 5 array a few years back with 8 disks

 

[Hefemeister]

Yeah sorry you can have as many drives as your adapter will allow. I just meant he only needed 3 and not 4 if he wanted.

 

[saltynay]

Raid 5 is also dynamic I think but not 100% sure may be raid 10 so you can add drives the more you need.

 

[Hefemeister]

As I understand it with a raid5 on a hardware controller you could add another drive and rebuild the array without data loss. I have not tried it nor would I with out a proper backup but it is possible.

 

[NickPapageorgio]

Thank you!

The cheapest 750GB at newegg is the:
Western Digital Caviar GP WD7500AACS 750GB 5400 to 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $69.99 each.

Is that too slow though?

The cheapest 7200RPM 32MB is the:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3750330AS 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $79.99 each.

THANKS AGAIN!