Re: SATA NAS with Ethernet?

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Talking of transfer rate - one result of my server PSU blowing
recently
and taking out a drive was that Win2k permanently marked that drive
controller as PIO only.  Registry hacking is the only way to change it
back - but I didn't find that out until after I'd copied the entire
contents to another drive at 3Mb/s! :-(

I'd agree the Hitachis are quiet - maybe not as good as Samsung, but
definitely better than Seagate disks with that annoying head shuffling
thing they do every few seconds.

Mal



Phil Harris wrote:
>
> I mean fair's fair ... the Hitachi 1Tb drives are still pretty damn
quiet
> and either the Hitachis' or the Western Digitals' could be said to be
> pretty
> much silent beside the old stack of creaking 160Gb drives that they
have
> replaced.
>
> In fact my entire server (P4 2.53GHz, 1Gb RAM, 7Tb, 550w PSU) is quiet
> enough that it is actually in the bedroom with me where I'm lodging
whilst
> the solicitors sort out the purchase of my new house and it is quiet
> enough
> that I can sleep quite happily with it running. (OK - I have
temporarily
> taken out the 4-in-3 hot swap SATA backplanes as the fans in those
were
> quite horrendous but I've sourced some quieter fans for those too and
will
> get those fitted and soldered in when I get the time.)
>
> The WD's are just quieter and above all much cooler running as they're
> 5400rpm drives rather than 7200rpm (however they still beat the WD
Raptor
> drives for transfer rate).
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>]
On
> Behalf
> > Of Mal Lansell
> > Sent: 05 January 2008 13:38
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] SATA NAS with Ethernet?
> >
> > My Hitachi drives felt like they would melt your skin off - until
I
> > realised I hadn't plugged in the case's front cooling fan! :-)
> >
> > WD in future for me though. Plus they're the cheapest at the
moment -
> > Overclockers.co.uk has them for £180 inc VAT.
> >
> > Mal
> >
> >
> > Phil Harris wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Oh and go for the Western Digital Green Power 1Tb drives
over the
> > Hitachi
> > > ones...
> > >
> > > ...they run a fair bit quieter but a *LOT* cooler and take
about half
> > the
> > > power.
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > >
> >
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