commissioneranthony
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I posted this in the general hardware section as well, sorry for the repeat
I am planning on building an esata external Raid array for personal backups.
I am going to use raid 1, so it will mirror the HDD's I use. I plan on using 2 HDD's
This is the controller I plan on using:
http://www.addonics.com/products/ad5hpmrxa-e.php
apparently this controller supports hardware raid for up to 5 drives
I plan on throwing the controller, the HDD's and PSU into an apple II c era 5.25in floppy drive case, like I did here:
http://salvagedcircuitry.com/AppleIIHDD.html
What I really need is some advice on which HDD's to get. I have heard some hard drives dont like being in an array and tend to break from the array at random (I believe the WD caviar Green's)
I was looking at getting either WD or hitachi for the HDD, cause I want at least a 3 year warranty
I specifically want a 1tb drive or larger, so (2) identical 1tb or higher drives, 7200rpm.
I am between these 3 drives:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ..._mmc=EMC-GD071112-_-index-_-Item-_-22-145-304
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136798
Any idea on which one is best to use in an array?
Should I look at getting a WD caviar red?
http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_red_nas_hard_drive_review_wd30efrx
Thanks guys, I really appreciate your help.
I am planning on building an esata external Raid array for personal backups.
I am going to use raid 1, so it will mirror the HDD's I use. I plan on using 2 HDD's
This is the controller I plan on using:
http://www.addonics.com/products/ad5hpmrxa-e.php
apparently this controller supports hardware raid for up to 5 drives
I plan on throwing the controller, the HDD's and PSU into an apple II c era 5.25in floppy drive case, like I did here:
http://salvagedcircuitry.com/AppleIIHDD.html
What I really need is some advice on which HDD's to get. I have heard some hard drives dont like being in an array and tend to break from the array at random (I believe the WD caviar Green's)
I was looking at getting either WD or hitachi for the HDD, cause I want at least a 3 year warranty
I specifically want a 1tb drive or larger, so (2) identical 1tb or higher drives, 7200rpm.
I am between these 3 drives:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ..._mmc=EMC-GD071112-_-index-_-Item-_-22-145-304
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136798
Any idea on which one is best to use in an array?
Should I look at getting a WD caviar red?
http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_red_nas_hard_drive_review_wd30efrx
Thanks guys, I really appreciate your help.