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    WD says RED drives can reach 60C

    Disk drives are electronic but more importantly mechanical. When your HD fails it's usually the mechanics at fault (motor, heads, platters), rarely electronics. For mechanical devices not enough heat can be just as bad as too much. But I wouldn't worry about it because like a previous poster...
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    Setting power save options individually per drive in Windows?

    If you put your pagefile on HDD1, that should prevent it from spinning down. Alternatively, if you can connect HDD2 with a SATA HBA while leaving HDD1 on a MOBO port, you can try disabling HDD power management in your MOBO bios and HDD1 shouldn't ever spin down.
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    do I really need a sas expander card

    Calling bullshit on this one too.
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    do I really need a sas expander card

    Thats pretty alarming, can you post a link?
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    access delay on 3TB with LOTS of folders

    Don't rule it out just yet... Windows is extremely aggressive with its power saving behaviour. If you simply access a directory while a disk is sleeping, Windows will spin your disk up to read the file table and then spin back down immediately no matter how many minutes you have set. So the...
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    5TB?

    Some (most? all??) 4TB drives still use 5 platters.
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    Was the HDD Crisis Fake?

    We all know what happened with the floods last year... But what's happening now? Why are the prices still double what they were a year ago?
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    Have hard drive prices gone back to pre-flooding pricing?

    Before the floods a 2tb 5400 rpm drive from Hitachi/Samsung/Seagate went for $59.99. Now almost a year after the "crisis" the prices have "stabilized" around 119.99-129.99.
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    3ware Controller - Few issues

    As far as the SSL bug, try an older version of Firefox. 7.0 works for me, anything higher refuses to load.
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    3ware Controller - Few issues

    Something is surely wrong... with the same card and expander I get 300-400MB/s reads.
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    3ware Controller - Few issues

    3b) I just realized you're talking slot numbers on 3), not ports. Try setting the firmware jumper on the chenbro. You will lose the slot numbering, but your problem could be related to enclosure support.
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    3ware Controller - Few issues

    1) In the 3DM2 Settings, do you have "Allow Remote Acess" enabled? 2) Each port refers to a connected drive. With that card you can have up to 128 ports IIRC. Ports numbered 8+ are virtual ports, for drives connected thru an expander. Ports 0-7 are reserved for drives connected directly to...
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    Windows 8 Preview / I am playing with Storage Spaces

    That sounds nice, but I wouldn't bet on it. Server 2008 R2 has the same abysmal write speed for its raid5 parity implementation...
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    HDD prices rising

    That's a good deal, is it available online?
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    Replacing failed drive in RAID 6...Same Capacity vs Same RPM?

    Using larger drives is no problem, sure you lose the extra space but you also decrease access times. Sometimes this is done on purpose and it's called short stroking.
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