I am looking into getting more storage space and have 3 slots for HDDs and am not sure whether it is cheaper to buy 1TB - 1.5TB - 2TB HDDs.
If its cheaper to get 1TB (3TB total), the loss of space does not bother me, i am on a budget so i need to go for what is cheapest no what is best.
I will only buy Western Digital and brands of that higher quality.
-Murderface.
Buy 3 1tb and raid them
Yeah, my mates have told me about "raid".
Can you tell me what that is in a nutshell? (brief summary)
-Murderface.
Don't quote me put isn't RAID when the memory can find things in your hard drive faster, therefore having faster boot times or something?
Do you really need 3tb..
Yes. I need more if someone can find it cheap.
So raiding is?
-Murderface.
3tb is what you would need to make Transformers 2. (is that right? they used something like 3 tb right?)
[QUOTE=wMurderface;21544917]Yeah, my mates have told me about "raid".
Can you tell me what that is in a nutshell? (brief summary)
-Murderface.[/QUOTE]
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On topic, are WD Hardrives one of the best? im probaly going to have to get a new one due to my seagate barracuda turning into a magnetic brick.
raid is where you can set up a series of identical hdds together so that the computer sees them as one large drive (i think)
Ok, cheers.
[QUOTE=wMurderface;21544917]Yeah, my mates have told me about "raid".
Can you tell me what that is in a nutshell? (brief summary)
-Murderface.[/QUOTE]
Please stop signing your posts.. Why do you think facepunch removed sig's.
Did Facepunch ever have sigs?
[QUOTE=doonbugie;21572760]Please stop signing your posts.. Why do you think facepunch removed sig's.[/QUOTE]
It used to be a rule.
OP I just bought a pair of these. [url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001C271MA[/url]
They were $99.99 and dropped $10 after I ordered the first one. But if you look at the drop down they have a 2 TB that is $280 so definitely way cheaper to go with 1 TB drives right now.
I just got a 1tb WD it's fairly good the case of it looks like the plastic molder had jizz all over it.
But what ever. I paid $0 for it, but it's $90 on new egg.
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136496[/url]
I didn't get it from new egg.
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It's only 5400 rpms as-well I'm just putting movies and shit on it so I don't care I got a barracuda for games.
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Mines OEM and "can't" be bought unless you're a manufacturer but that's the closest one.
Depending on how you RAID them you will get different effects. a bog standard RAID 1 copies all data stored on one drive to the others so that searches are faster, and if one drive dies, your data is secure. Don't quote me on that RAID version mind you.
[QUOTE=paul simon;21573088]Did Facepunch ever have sigs?[/QUOTE]
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I'd personally get 3 x 1.5 TB drives and run them in RAID5 if you want 3 TB of space. With RAID5, you lose the capacity of one drive, but you can have any one of the three disks fail and still have your data.
Using RAID1 on 3 drives will make all 3 drives a mirror of each other, so you could have 2 disks fail and still have your data, but you'd only have the capacity of the single 1.5 TB drive.
RAID0 would give you 4.5TB of space, but if a drive failed, you'd lose everything, there is no redundancy. The pro is that reads and writes are much faster.
make sure you have a motherboard that supports RAID or atleast a card to support it
Cheers fellas, i think i will be going for RAID5, sounds the best.
Also, to RAID drives, do they have to be the same? Like size, brand, so on...as i also have a Seagate Barracuda, and could use that in the RAID also?
I think any HDD can be used for RAID so long as you have the controller to do so. I don't think the brand matters, but having the same size is probably a good idea.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;21584251]I think any HDD can be used for RAID so long as you have the controller to do so. I don't think the brand matters, but having the same size is probably a good idea.[/QUOTE]
Using the exact same brand and model number is highly recommended because even though drives say 250 GB, 500 GB, etc. They can vary in size still. I've had cases where a drive in a RAID array failed and I got a replacement drive from Seagate that was a different model number, but still a 250 GB drive that was 250.1 GB while the existing drive was 250.2 GB and the array couldn't be rebuilt.
The only time I'd mix and match drives would be in a JBOD array where size doesn't matter.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;21585290]Using the exact same brand and model number is highly recommended because even though drives say 250 GB, 500 GB, etc. They can vary in size still. I've had cases where a drive in a RAID array failed and I got a replacement drive from Seagate that was a different model number, but still a 250 GB drive that was 250.1 GB while the existing drive was 250.2 GB and the array couldn't be rebuilt.
The only time I'd mix and match drives would be in a JBOD array where size doesn't matter.[/QUOTE]
Good to know. I haven't looked into RAID too much to see problems like that.
[QUOTE=Ericsson;21545647]Do you really need 3tb..[/QUOTE]
This guy does
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