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Drive Advice

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Hi,
I'm currently putting together a new build as listed here:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1477079
However I can't get hold of the 640gb wd blacks from anywhere here in the UK :eek:
I can however get hold of wd black's 500gb/750gb and the RE3's320/500

The drive are going to be put in raid 0 so would it be worth me buying the 320/500 RE3 as they as specified for raid'in or should i just go with a 500/750 black?

Also i can;t get the Kingston 40gb sdd, so i'm just going to wait until after xmas for that.

Regards
Satpal
 
An special edition drive should not be necessary for RAID. Many people ran RAID on normal desktop drives for years before special features CRC error correcting features and whatever features were added to this very entry level enterprise-wanna-be drive. If the price/capacity difference is anything more than marginal I wouldn't buy into it.

The 500GB is likely faster than the 750, but probably by only a hair or so and seen maybe in synthetics but not noticeable in real-world use. I'd go with whichever will fulfill your capacity needs.

You could also partition off a 40GB or so chunk of your array for the OS, and run it in the same structure you'll be running when you get your SSD. When the SSD comes in you can ghost that partition over to the SSD and reclaim the space into your array and keep on working without a new fresh reload of everything.

You have a backup/archival solution? 40GB SSD is pretty limited capacity and a STRIPE array really isn't to be trusted. Setting up a incremental backup on a single TB drive or something just so it's on a physically different disc would be nice, or if your critical/important files are small enough, mozy.com offers a really nice app for managing upto 2GB of online/offsite backup for free.
 
Menelmarar said:
An special edition drive should not be necessary for RAID. Many people ran RAID on normal desktop drives for years before special features CRC error correcting features and whatever features were added to this very entry level enterprise-wanna-be drive. If the price/capacity difference is anything more than marginal I wouldn't buy into it.
The 500GB is likely faster than the 750, but probably by only a hair or so and seen maybe in synthetics but not noticeable in real-world use. I'd go with whichever will fulfill your capacity needs.
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I think that i will buy the RE3 500gb, given that I had ordered the 640 from them and they had a stock problem and were actually out of stock. The difference between the 640 black and the 500 £10, gonna try and haggle since they messed up :p

Menelmarar said:
You could also partition off a 40GB or so chunk of your array for the OS, and run it in the same structure you'll be running when you get your SSD. When the SSD comes in you can ghost that partition over to the SSD and reclaim the space into your array and keep on working without a new fresh reload of everything.
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That was exactly what i was planning on doing. However it seems as though the Kingston SSD now 64gb ones are only about £20-25 more expensive when is stock, would it worth getting one of those, instead of the 40gb Kingston SSD Now?

Menelmarar said:
You have a backup/archival solution? 40GB SSD is pretty limited capacity and a STRIPE array really isn't to be trusted. Setting up a incremental backup on a single TB drive or something just so it's on a physically different disc would be nice, or if your critical/important files are small enough, mozy.com offers a really nice app for managing upto 2GB of online/offsite backup for free.
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I have a NAS that has 2x750gb mirrored, running ubuntu server ;)

Thanks for you reply.
Satpal
 
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