2015-09-22, 02:05 AM
You must live on the dry side!
HTPC: Optiplex 7010, HDHR Prime/Avermedia Duet A188, NPVR 4.2.5, Win10 Pro
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My video array is 5x3TB Western Digital RED with two of those being parity (or it may be 4x3TB with 1 parity???)
I have a data space with 3TB Blacks in a mirror and a single 3TB scratch drive (Green). And 512GB Samsung 850 PRO Total usable is about 14TB
2015-09-22, 08:14 PM
Jaggy, that PC is minging man! I've taken better looking PC's to the dump!! :-)
âIf this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.â
2015-09-22, 09:01 PM
I am about to buy a 3TB disk. Here Seagate Desktop is cheapest but has highest power consumption 8W/5W (Operating/Idle power) so will run hottest! The Toshiba Desktop 6W/5.2W and WD Green 6W/5.5W are slightly lower power. The Seagate NAS 4.8W/3.9W and WD Red 4.4W/4.1W have the lowest power consumption. As video recording/playback is quite a light load on the disk I would assume the power load would be mostly towards the idle level.
I am looking at the power more from the heat generation view and the effect it has on reliability. My server runs around 2-5 hours each day mainly in the evening so the heat has time to build up. Perhaps I am old fashioned but I believe its not good for any electronic equipment to be too hot to touch and I have at least one hard disk which runs very hot!! I have had a 2TB WD Green for several years and seems ok. Of the three manufacturers I get a vague impression that Toshiba seems to have a slightly better reputation but nothing definite!! Chris
2015-09-22, 09:36 PM
gEd Wrote:Jaggy, that PC is minging man! I've taken better looking PC's to the dump!! :-)Actually, I think it's pretty good compared to my old one... Alex
A few years ago, WD Green disks have a well publicised problem with excessive head parking in the quest to reduce power consumption.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/show...-Green-DDs I guess if there is a point, it is that most HD manufacturers have had their turkey moment. here's a report on HD reliability from a enterprise store company At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-driv...mber-2014/
âIf this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.â
2015-09-22, 09:48 PM
Based on posted photos, Alex, Jaggy and steeb are actually the cause of global warming.
Martin
2015-09-22, 10:16 PM
mvallevand Wrote:Based on posted photos, Alex, Jaggy and steeb are actually the cause of global warming. To be fair, with them keeping old machines like these running, probably quite the opposite! Alex, it least yours doesn't have what appears to be the contents of the Kalahari desert inside it... (are we off topic enough yet?)
âIf this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.â
2015-09-22, 10:41 PM
gEd Wrote:To be fair, with them keeping old machines like these running, probably quite the opposite!I do like to squeeze the last ounce of the manufacturing carbon footprint out of my machines... Quote:Alex, it least yours doesn't have what appears to be the contents of the Kalahari desert inside it...I'd have to confess that I did vacuum it out before I took the photo... otherwise Mrs ACTCMS would have killed me... Quote:(are we off topic enough yet?)I don't think Jaggy will mind - he started it...  Alex
2015-09-23, 12:07 AM
gEd Wrote:To be fair, with them keeping old machines like these running, probably quite the opposite! I just can't make myself pull the plug on the old girl.... even now with a replacement server sitting waiting I'm not sure if adding this HDD is the time to retire the old girl yet :confused: Quote:Alex, it least yours doesn't have what appears to be the contents of the Kalahari desert inside it... sniff...sniff.... I actually thought the amount of dust inside (having not actually seen it until I looked at the photo as it would be at least a year ago since the last time I actually looked at the server & it was still running when I took that photo therefore the fans were all spinning not to mention it's pretty dark up on the top of that cupboard) wasn't all that bad for a computer that has been running 24/7 for nearly nine years almost without a break without having been pulled off the top of the cupboard for over seven years (when I pasted on the HDD fans....I probably gave it a clean out at that time) :p Quote:(are we off topic enough yet?) No worries on my account I feel I now have the information I was looking for.... basically there aren't any major problems (currently/recently) with any of the drives |
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