danrhodes Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 Hi All, Im after 5 x 1TB SATA Hard Drives, and a motherboard than can support 6 SATA Drives. Anybody have any ideas? D
Haptic Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 (edited) How about one of these, http://i00.twenga.com/p/23/60/482360vb.png Specifications Product Description ASUS P5QL PRO - motherboard - ATX - iP43 £80.00+vat Free Delivery. Product Type Motherboard Form Factor ATX Chipset Type Intel P43 Express / Intel ICH10 Front Side Bus 1600*/1333/1066/800 MHz *Overclock speed Processor 0 ( 1 ) - LGA775 Socket Compatible Processors Pentium 4, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Pentium Dual Core, Celeron 400 sequence, Celeron Dual Core RAM 0 MB (installed) / 16 GB (max) Supported RAM Technology DDR2 SDRAM Supported RAM Integrity Check Non-ECC Storage Controller ATA-133, Serial ATA-300 Multi-Core Support Dual-Core / Quad-core USB Ports Configuration 12 x USB Storage Ports Configuration 1 x ATA, 6 x SATA Audio Output Sound card - 7.1 channel surround Dimensions 30.5 cm x 19.3 cm Manufacturer Warranty 3 years warranty Also 5 X 1TB Western Digital Caviar SATA £73.00+vat Each With Free Delivery! Edited January 26, 2009 by Haptic
AyatollahPies Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 I can vouch for the 1TB Western Digital Caviars. Bought 2 myself recently. Very quiet and don't get too hot. Avoid Seagate seems to be the recommendation at the moment.
matt40k Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 Really? I've never had any problems with Seagate, not for at least 3 yrs or more down the line. The only except is when I get them from ebuyer and there idea of packaging. IE loads on top and nothing underneath.
Haptic Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 Really? I've never had any problems with Seagate, not for at least 3 yrs or more down the line. The only except is when I get them from ebuyer and there idea of packaging. IE loads on top and nothing underneath. The main issue people have with seagate at the moment is the recent cockup with firmware on loads of models of there drives see link below, Seagate Firmware Problems 1
matt40k Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 Thanks for that, was going to get 1TB soon. Is this resolved with the fireware now? Or still ongoing?
Michael Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 Are you going to RAID those Terabyte drives? I remember reading somewhere that due to various technical reasons RAID isn't recommended, but I haven't a clue as to why. A lot of the newer Intel server boards also come with 6 SATA connections.
unixman Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 I have the asus p5ql-e, which is similar to the above. It's a nice board but very finicky. According to the doco that came with it, RAID doesn't work with M$ operating systems out of the box. You basically have to run software RAID. If you run Fedora 9, the RAID controller will work fine, but it won't be recognised under Fedora 10, as they have removed a key kernel module. If you run Suse 11.0 or 11.1 it will recognise the RAID controller, but I could not get the LVM to work, I had to use disk partitioning to get volumes. Mandriva 2008 will recognise it on install, but kernel panic on boot. Mandriva 2009 works perfectly. The built-in ASUS Express Gate is a good feature if you want to access the internet but not boot your machine. I can see this as being very useful if, for example, the hard drive dies and you want to order another online.
SYNACK Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 Thanks for that, was going to get 1TB soon. Is this resolved with the fireware now? Or still ongoing? Depends on how new the drive you end up with is, there are firmware upgrades avalible but these have apparently brisked several of the 600GB ones. The newest drives don't have this issue but there is no guarentee of getting one as Segate has not recalled the affected drives as 'their' failure records don't indicate that the problem is wide spread. Other sources estimate the failure rate at 30%. There is an EG thread here avout the fault including the solutions: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/29206-segate-admits-firmware-issue-latest-160-1500gb-drives.html Unfourtunatly I have one of the affected drives but it has not failed yet. I need to rip it out and put it in a newer machine with native SATA to upgrade it through so have not tested the firmware update yet.
SYNACK Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 Are you going to RAID those Terabyte drives? I remember reading somewhere that due to various technical reasons RAID isn't recommended, but I haven't a clue as to why. It is to do with the rebuild time as because there is so much data to replicate the chances of another drive failing during the rebuild are much larger which is why the recommend RAID6, for even larger drives like 1.5TB there are concerns even about RAID6.
danrhodes Posted January 26, 2009 Author Posted January 26, 2009 Hi, Im just going to use FreeNAS to Stripe them as a basic storage drive! I need lots of storage space for video editing and RAW image storage. D
danrhodes Posted January 27, 2009 Author Posted January 27, 2009 Hey if your interested, this is what im trying to build, a cheap NAS server instead of a very expensive HP solution. D
Dos_Box Posted January 27, 2009 Posted January 27, 2009 Once these become available over here I'm getting one in my media PC 2TB drives arrive down under • Channel Register
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