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2011-01-12, 22:32
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-12, 23:09 by poofyhairguy.)
Well there you go, maybe I could have gotten by with all green drives and my old PSU.
Still, if you are gonna buy from scratch for a media server, why not just get a single rail PSU from the start?
EDIT: I get your point. I will stop recommending Corsair PSUs. I didn't realize they went downhill. I will stick to recommending Seasonic built Antec Neo PSUs.
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Once again. Stay FAR FAR away Western Digital. If you're even thinking of ever using RAID of any sort, ZFS, etc. Just. No.
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any hd's you would recommend?
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what about the hds jvdb? darkscout says to stay away from wd... i have also read to stay away from seagate.... any info on that?
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I'm running Seagates. They run fine.
If they fail, that's what RAID and warranties are for.
When reading reviews take into account that failures will get people to complain more than writing reviews about successes.
However I swore I even saw a Western Digital tech note on how you shouldn't use the green drives for RAID. You can't enable TLER which causes bad things to happen.
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