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morbid79:
I'm pretty interested in the new ATI cards, especially how they can run multiple monitors. Mmm.
GuitarFreak:
--- Quote from: morbid79 on 22 Sep 2009, 05:17 ---Dual Xeon 5520
16GB ECC DDR3
6*300GB WD Velociraptor running RAID10
LSI SAS Controller
3*ATI 4890/1GB, no X2 (4890 hasn't been X2'd yet, that I know of)
Asus Xonar DX sound card
LG DVD burner
PC Power and Cooling 1200W PSU
Lian Li X2000 case
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I would have gone with 1.5TB drives for the space. They're just as fast as the raptors and offer a shitton more space.
My drive
Also, if anyone is looking for one, I'm selling an XSPC Razor GTX 260/280 water block, also my EVGA 790i SLI mobo w/NB/SB block. PM for info.
est:
There is a school of thought that believes you should not be using very large drives in RAID arrays due to the increasing possibility of a rebuild failure and data loss.
--- Quote from: that page ---A single 8+2 rebuild with 1.5 TB drives reads and writes about 28.5 TB (read 1.5 TB*9 drives, write 1.5 TB*10 drives). That means that in a perfect world using vendor specifications, we can expect one out of every 312 rebuilds to fail today with data loss. Moving to the next-generation 2 TB drives, this value drops to every 234 rebuilds, and with 4 TB drives it drops to every 117 rebuilds.
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Also, perhaps he is using the machine for something that is better served by the VelociRaptor's faster access time? I dunno.
GuitarFreak:
Possibly. I don't really know a whole lot about RAID. It's pretty much the only thing dealing with computers I haven't done besides extreme cooling D:
morbid79:
The file server is running 6*1.5TB in a RAID50 configuration. I had a power failure (tripped the breaker) and it had to rebuild. Took a solid day to get that done. No loss, though. Phew!
Also, workstation needs a bit more disk access speed, hence the RAID10 + faster drives. Games and 3D rendering are fun!
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