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David Autumns
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edit buttom?
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Former Member
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I've had my own striped RAID go down on my main PC today - the very first time a Maxtor has ever failed on me. I'm running on my Ghosted copy and back in action and I can retrieve most of my Files from the raid fingers crossed. Never trust a Maxtor. Just add another drive and go RAID 5. Then you get the best of both worlds. |
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David Autumns
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Hi joneill003 I've been a Maxtor Fan for years with many years of crunching and this is the first drive failure I've suffered - I've been lucky up until now.
----------------------------------------I have my eye on one of those WD Raptors (2 With Raid) amd then a 1 TB Monster for backup. Hey I can dream  right where was I ah yes Nearly  There's always tomorrow The 2 Century Day is there for the taking It won't be long  Dave |
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Hi joneill003 I've been a Maxtor Fan for years with many years of crunching and this is the first drive failure I've suffered - I've been lucky up until now. I have my eye on one of those WD Raptors (2 With Raid) amd then a 1 TB Monster for backup. Hey I can dream right where was I ah yes Nearly There's always tomorrow The 2 Century Day is there for the taking It won't be long Dave But dual 10,000PRM drives can get pretty noisy, plus adding fans to cool those monsters!!! They are nice though. I think somewhere in the 4.5ms seek time range. I've had quite a few Maxtors go bad on me, so I have little trust in them. Maybe now that they are teamed up with Seagate (I think I heard that somewhere) I might regain my faith. I've only had one Seagate crash on me (luckily while I was wiping it) so no loss there. I do like the Raptors, they are nice, but last time I looked they were still only SATA 150, not 300. WD needs to get in gear and get a 10,000RPM Raptor in SATA II soon. Those would be sweet for gaming. If I were a gamer then I would get them  |
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Sekerob
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And another attempt at 2 centuries in the making.... lunchtime an 'almost' century
----------------------------------------05/16/2007 98:129:20:47:58 47,472,271 87,983 Sidenote is, that HCMD on it's own almost did 98 CPU years 
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Sekerob
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edit buttom? HCMD did that on Tuesday!
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The 2 Century Day is there for the taking It won't be long Dave So close... almost there!! Yesterday: Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) 198:101:15:39:22 |
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olympic
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But dual 10,000PRM drives can get pretty noisy, plus adding fans to cool those monsters!!! They are nice though. I think somewhere in the 4.5ms seek time range. I've had quite a few Maxtors go bad on me, so I have little trust in them. Maybe now that they are teamed up with Seagate (I think I heard that somewhere) I might regain my faith. I've only had one Seagate crash on me (luckily while I was wiping it) so no loss there. I do like the Raptors, they are nice, but last time I looked they were still only SATA 150, not 300. WD needs to get in gear and get a 10,000RPM Raptor in SATA II soon. Those would be sweet for gaming. If I were a gamer then I would get them I just set up a RAID 0 array with dual 74GB Raptors. While they are slightly noisier than a regular drive while seeking, it's not obnoxiously so. Mounting the drives with rubber isolaters can help. As for heat, I never see the Raptors running any hotter than the 500GB Western Digital backup drive that's in the same drive cage. As long as you have some sort of fresh airflow over them, there should be no issues. Most cases these days come with a front fan(or the option to install one) to push cool air over the drives. Heck even the $25 Coolermaster case I bought a while ago had a spot for a 120mm front fan! So far I'm very happy with the setup. I havn't had time to test it with gaming yet but everything else loads very fast. Most apps are nearly instantly loaded and opened. Here's my HDtach (these are the older 8MB cache Raptors) http://images.ncix.com/forumimages/13955218-7F83-11CE-B709F2E4623C626A.JPG  |
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Former Member
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I just set up a RAID 0 array with dual 74GB Raptors. While they are slightly noisier than a regular drive while seeking, it's not obnoxiously so. Sounds nice. I am still at the (yawn) 7200RPM drives. We have a few Ultra 320 SCSI drives here and you can hear those 15,000 RPM beasts from across the lab! My case doesn't have a spot for a fan except an 80mm BELOW the drives... how dumb is that? At least put it in front or behind the actual drives, not under them. Need a new case though. At least the back has a 120mm. The little rubber grommets do help a ton, I'll agree with you there on that one. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 17, 2007 12:25:51 PM] |
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Sekerob
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Creeping closer, that 2 century 'resistance point' is not budging yet and given the 93 CPU years at lunch time today, we'll have to postpone the festivities till next week....
----------------------------------------On another celibration, on Monday May 14, 2007 we passed the 90,000 CPU year mark and at this pace we will be hitting 100,000 before the NH Global warming peak hits at its fullest. and Dave.... in case you will need them for future events, here a selection :     
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