[Novalug] best hard disk setup for home file server?

Richard Ertel richard.ertel@gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 15:57:59 EDT 2009


yeah but only at 5400 rpm, so it's not that big a deal.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 15:55, Ken Kauffman <kkauffman@headfog.com> wrote:
> The only unfortunate part is that the green drives come with these on
> top requiring you to spin them by hand.
> http://img.directindustry.com/images_di/photo-g/crank-handle-172473.jpg
>
> K
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 15:49, Richard Ertel <richard.ertel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Without an intelligent RAID card, things like TLER matter little."
>>
>> what exactly does that mean? that getting a "raid edition" drive that
>> has TLER but not using an intelligent hardware raid card = a waste?
>> that using a non-TLER "green" "cheap" drive with software RAID is ok?
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 15:41, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:
>>> Solutions like TLER are largely to combat the fact that you have
>>> 2-32MiB of Volatile** DRAM in the drive that is not battery backed
>>> (and not SRAM** so it cannot be capacity-backed either).
>>>
>>> Without an intelligent RAID card, things like TLER matter little.
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