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hi,
im building a nas for HTPC stream and audio / picture playback around the house.
something that has been bugging me:
I have 1 x 2TB Samsung spinpoint HD204UI, the spin time is 10 seconds and then the drive spins back down again after a period of time. Thats will be no problem for use as a backup drive for the main storage array with scheduled backups but im concerned that as a main storage drive that could be problematic?
my reasoning for this concern is that watching (buffering) a movie that the drive will go to sleep again and the movie will pause. Of course i would like the nas software to keep the drive awake more often but then this can defeat the object of saving energy and balancing that with a quick directory lookup.
would it be better to start the build with non green drives for storage and just use green for backup so the drive wakes up quick and gets to the data fast?
im building a nas for HTPC stream and audio / picture playback around the house.
something that has been bugging me:
I have 1 x 2TB Samsung spinpoint HD204UI, the spin time is 10 seconds and then the drive spins back down again after a period of time. Thats will be no problem for use as a backup drive for the main storage array with scheduled backups but im concerned that as a main storage drive that could be problematic?
my reasoning for this concern is that watching (buffering) a movie that the drive will go to sleep again and the movie will pause. Of course i would like the nas software to keep the drive awake more often but then this can defeat the object of saving energy and balancing that with a quick directory lookup.
would it be better to start the build with non green drives for storage and just use green for backup so the drive wakes up quick and gets to the data fast?