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Western Digital Scorpio Black RAID

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EnderW

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Anyone using Western Digital Scorpio Black drives in RAID?
Thinking of moving to all 2.5" drives in my main system, possibly 4 or 8 of these in RAID0.

I'm a bit cautious since they're labeled as "notebook" drives, thought maybe they could have some power saving feature that would cause RAID drop outs or problems.
 
Why not just get an SSD? No amount of hard drives in raid will be as fast as a single SSD when it comes to real world performance. Or do you want several TB of space? I would instead spend $550 to $600 and get a single 512GB crucial M4 on eBay.
 
More than 2 mechanical drives in a RAID0 is just asking for trouble in my opinion...
 
drescherjm said:
Why not just get an SSD? No amount of hard drives in raid will be as fast as a single SSD when it comes to real world performance. Or do you want several TB of space? I would instead spend $550 to $600 and get a single 512GB crucial M4 on eBay.
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need at least 2TB of space

hotcrandel said:
I agree. Why not try and explain why you want to do what you're doing [4-8 2.5" hdd's in R0]
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video capture and I just want a lot of fast, cheap space
already have SSD for OS and applications
this will just be used as a "temp" drive for stuff
and will be backed up every night
 
Does it really need to be fast for video capture? I mean a single 5400 RPM hard drive will handle several simultaneous streams of 1080p.
 
I have been using 4xSamsung 500GB single platter drives in RAID0 for the last couple years and they have been great

was going to upgrade to the Hitachi 7K1000.D single platter drives but having trouble, 1-2 dead drives already? not finished testing and bad reviews on newegg of drives failing after a few months
so thinking of scrapping them

I might just go back to the Samsungs, but I got a great deal on these supermicro bays open box at newegg today for $55 each for 2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101190R

so thinking I might change to 2.5 drives as I could fit more in my case
 
the Hitachi 7K1000.D single platter drives but having trouble, 1-2 dead drives already?
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Was the package well packed? Poor shipping is a major cause of early drive death.
 
Are you using some sort of on-board intel RAID? I wouldn't suggest any Western Digital drives other than those labeled as "Enterprise" Or "RE / Raid Edition" with those ports, or any other RAID cards that don't explicitly list those drives as compatible.

I've experienced issues with drives dropping out of arrays [blues, blacks, 3.5"]. I've had 0 issues with WD-RE drives, and even velociraptors [labeled "Enterprise]. I've also had really good luck with hitachi ultrastar's and deskstars.
 
EnderW said:
need at least 2TB of space

video capture and I just want a lot of fast, cheap space
already have SSD for OS and applications
this will just be used as a "temp" drive for stuff
and will be backed up every night
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Are you capturing encoded video, or Raw? Even RawHD is only ~50MB/s which even a basic single SATA drive will accomplish with no problem. If you are capturing multiple uncompressed streams you will need more.
 
If you're gonna have more then 3, just make it a Raid5 or 10. then you have the increased speed with data redundancy. Losing a drive isn't gonna kill the whole thing.

If you have 8 drives, I'd do a 6 or 7 drive Raid10, set one or two as hot spares. Then if one dies, it'll automatically migrate to one of the good drives. No down time, very little performance degredation.

My 2 cents.
 
I did some comparing 2.5" vs 3.5" drives when I recently rebuild my computer--including some hdtune tests. I like the low power and quietness of the laptop drives. I have a couple of pretty fast desktop & laptop drives, and the desktop drives were consistently significantly faster.

The laptop drives do consume considerably less power, though.
 
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