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I just got a couple of WD20EARS drives and I want to test them before putting them in. I got a bad batch of WDs a couple of years ago, so i generally try to burn them in now, when I first get them. I would generally use the WD Data LifeGuard tools from their website, but the DOS bootable...

what is a good size disk stripe? I have a number of drives 10 x 500GB, 4 x 1TB and 2 x 2TB that I'm planning to put together. I'm thinking of striping the 1TB and 2TB disks into a 6 drive R5 stripe for performance. Is that enough? I have a 10 drive R5 stripe today with the 500GB and it's not...

thanks for the responses. I've had mdadm setup for a long time with some of these drives, but I wasn't seeing the performance I expected and it's a REAL pain to pass through disks to ESX client in a raw fashion. I was just hoping for something easy with a raid card that could spin-down and...

It's possible that the system powered off uncleanly. i've been doing lots of testing on it. are there some settings in the RAID card that I should back off of to make sure that even in the event of an unclean shutdown it will still keep working?

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I'm playing around with my new Areca 1260 and I've already hit a data corruption issue. I have an 9 drive raid group (500GB each) that I've carved into a 2TB R5 lun. I presented the LUN to my ESX guest using Raw Device Mapping and all seemed to go pretty well. It's as fast a i need (200MB/s...

awesome, what case is that? do you know if you could put any of the 5 bay hot-swap cages in those bays? That would give you even more density...but that's truly awesome. what case?

USB is ok if you want something that needs to be portable between system...like manually moving the disk from your house to work or something like that. In my world it's all about centrally accessed storage for multiple devices. In that world NAS is the champ. It's compatible with just about...

I've built a new HW Raid volume and it's pretty fast with ext4, but I was wondering if I should be considering some other FS for media files (mostly music). I've tried Reiser before, but I'm not really hot on that anymore. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

At my company we generally recommend 1 Hot Spare for every 30 drives regardless of RAID type. The systems we sell are pretty high end, however and we have 7 x 24 x 365 warranty coverage on all disks with a 4 hour response time and extensive pre-failure analysis. In my house I don't use spares...

I'm certain that the issue is not power. I have plugged them into the PC while using the same power that I have setup for the server test. Basically the drives are just sitting out in a small HDDRACK5 with SATA power coming from a brand new OCZ ModXstream Pro 500W PSU. The PSU has 10 drives...

I forgot to mention. The PSU is brand new and I've swapped the drives around on various ports. It's a 500W PSU and ALL it has on it are 10 drives, nothing else.

I agree with the above posters. Your expectation should be that a new SATA III drive will perform about as well as a SATA2 drive from an IO perspective. That's a start. The bench looks pretty jaggy, so I would go into your task manager and kill anything that's not important. Also check the...

Hi guys, I'm wondering if anyone might have some insight into a strange issue I'm having with my ARECA raid card. I have an ARC-1260 plugged into an HP DL380 G5 server. I'm connecting a bunch of Hitachi HDS725050KLA360 drives. All of the drives are identical and I've tested each of them on...