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Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:16 No.24198294

what would you do if someone gave you 5, 2.0 tb hard drives?

im thinking about making a porn website

>>	!TL1000sHOA 04/13/12(Fri)20:17 No.24198320 Back everything of mine up and host a LAN. >Delicious storage

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:19 No.24198347 >caviar green sell em and buy something better.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:19 No.24198354 I would make 5 redundant encrypted copies of what i already have.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:20 No.24198375 >>24198294 get on my knees and thank the man.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:21 No.24198381 I'd Stripe and Mirror 4 of them and then use the 5th one for parity.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:22 No.24198417 >>24198294 Probably mix and a drink and make some dinner. I just got home from work - I CBF dealing with HDDs right now. Shit.

>>	XYZZY !qTheGamefs 04/13/12(Fri)20:23 No.24198429 Put them in raid 5, fill them up with 8TBs of downloaded media.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:24 No.24198466 File: 1334363066.jpg-(2.66 MB, 2000x3008, os6_d4_4699.jpg) >>24198381 what exactly would that do

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:29 No.24198563 >>24198294 Raid 0 >GOTTAGOFAST

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:29 No.24198577 Fill them with MILF porn.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:30 No.24198585 >>24198294 Buy a Synology DS1512+ and NAS it up.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:31 No.24198605 >>24198466 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_striping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_mirroring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RAID_Parity

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:32 No.24198617 >>24198585 are they $1000?

Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:32 No.24198620

>>24198347
What exactly is the difference between
caviar green
caviar blue
caviar black

green is the really shitty one right and black is the best?
What exactly makes some of them better than others?

Also Is paying $70USD for a new Caviar Black 500GB paying to much or a good deal? Since that flood and shit happened prices went up.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:33 No.24198630 >>24198617 800. The DS1812+ with 8 drive bays is 1,000 dollars or more.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:35 No.24198663 >>24198620 In terms of performance, power usage, noise black > blue > green green is usually for storage, black is usually for games and shits, blue is for a mix of both

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:35 No.24198667 >>24198620 Greens are limited to 5400rpm.

>>	!TL1000sHOA 04/13/12(Fri)20:38 No.24198712 >>24198667 5400rpm means nothing for a storage drive.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:39 No.24198746 >>24198712 Reads / Writes data slower mang

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:42 No.24198783 Build my own seedbox Throw my projects repo on there Probably host a webserver A couple game servers too just because

>>	!TL1000sHOA 04/13/12(Fri)20:42 No.24198788 >>24198746 Hardly. I average about 65/70MB/s transferring movies to it. It's a storage drive, not a place to put game textures.

>>	!TL1000sHOA 04/13/12(Fri)20:45 No.24198831 File: 1334364345.png-(76 KB, 594x521, Untitled.png) >>24198788 Aside from DAT TROUGH, I was actually surprised by this. Wouldn't let me do a write bench.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:46 No.24198851 is the easiest way to make a webhost with virutal lamp server with webmin? i wouldnt need sql for a porn website right?

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:48 No.24198870 >Sell one HDD >Buy HP NL40 MicroServer >Run FreeNAS from USB flash drive >Create a RAID 5 array out of the HDDs >Enjoy 6TB of fault tolerant home storage Something like that

Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:49 No.24198895

Reopen my old Astraweb account and leech till my bandwidth was slower than a dialup connection for anything but that feed from Astraweb I suppose.

Could really use a nice large capacious drive right about now for backing some stuff up. Out of blank DVDs and I just don't feel like making the trip to Fry's.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:50 No.24198915 >>24198667 Wrong. You can get greens which run at 7200rpm

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:52 No.24198942 Begin testing them for faults. Then add them one at a time to a RAID5

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:53 No.24198950 you gonna shoot your own porn? I dont know if you've noticed it, but porn producers have been sue-happy lately...what with the DMCA cease-and-desists and whatnot...

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:54 No.24198975 >>24198870 >Enjoy 8TB of fault tolerant home storage Fixed for you

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:58 No.24199041 >>24198975 The HP NL40 can only fit 4 drives, though. :(

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)20:59 No.24199049 I already have 10TB, but I'd buy a new pc or buy a NAS server.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:00 No.24199061 I have 9.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:13 No.24199263 Give one to your good old friend anon Hint i'm the anon.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:14 No.24199285 Probably read up for once what the fuck Raid is and how I do into it

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:42 No.24199744 >>24198975 He said: >Sell one HDD So n-1=4x2TB ---Raid-5--> (n-1) = 3x2TB = 6 TB RAID nigger.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:43 No.24199761 freenas

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:44 No.24199767 >>24199744 amazing

Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:49 No.24199838

All you guys saying: "I'll just put it in RAID 5"

I've heard relying on the motherboard's software RAID is a bad way to go.

What is /g/'s opinion on this? I've always heard that if you're going to do a large raid (e.g. RAID 5 +) you need to do it right and get the expensive ($500+) hardware RAID card.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:50 No.24199858 >>24198294 I would either use them for a file server OR do stupid experiments on them (See if they float, see how long one can last while it's on fire, etc. etc.)

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:51 No.24199876 >>24199838 If you have 5 drives, just buy a NAS.

>>	Anonymous 04/13/12(Fri)21:51 No.24199879 I would be angry because my motherboard only has 4 SATA ports.

>>	Anonymous 04/14/12(Sat)00:03 No.24201886 >>24199838 Simple. RAID isn't something you do on a whim. If you're gonna do it you're gonna buy a RAID card.

>>	Anonymous 04/14/12(Sat)00:05 No.24201906 >>24199838 IIRC, a dedicated RAID card costs a fair amount more than any casualfag is going to spend. They also offload CPU cycles when running the array as opposed to the faux-RAID on the mobo.

>>	Anonymous 04/14/12(Sat)00:07 No.24201935 >>24199838 >>24201886 >>24201906 This is why you use 100% software RAID that does not depend on the motherboard or anything else. It's fast enough, and if the mobo dies under you, it's trivial to rebuild the array. And no, mdadm does not work on windows.

>>	Anonymous 04/14/12(Sat)00:09 No.24201958 I'd buy a cheap mobo with 6 sata ports, an 8gb ssd, some mediocre cpu, a few ram sticks, put it together and install FreeNAS. getting a nice NAS with ZFS

>>	Anonymous 04/14/12(Sat)00:10 No.24201964 >>24199879 PCI SATA add-on cards are like $20.

>>	Anonymous 04/14/12(Sat)00:10 No.24201971 download more anime. backup my favorites and must-haves.

>>	Anonymous 04/14/12(Sat)00:12 No.24201984 Run all of them in RAID 0 Put all your important stuff there, and drop them on a hard like concrete ground. make loads of $$$$.

>>	!zyx404ibBQ 04/14/12(Sat)00:14 No.24202001 >>24198294 >Caviar Green. Sell them and get SSDs

>>	Anonymous 04/14/12(Sat)00:14 No.24202003 >>24199879 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115077

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