Re: 400 gig Hitachi

Damien Hull wrote:

>I installed a 400 gig Hitachi into my server yesterday. Once it was
>installed I moved over some data. All of my Linux mirrors are on this
>drive. I've also got my Firefox download directory on this drive. I
>download a lot of software. There are a few other things on the drive.
>It all comes to a grand total of 79G's.
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>At the moment I can't say if this drive is good or bad. It's working and
>that's all I need at the moment. All my drives are SATA. Not sure if
>that means much in my situation. Right now it's just me and a one or two
>that connect over the net. That shouldn't cause a lot of disk IO.
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>If anyone needs a bigger drive check out the Hitachi website. I just
>found out that they make a 500 gig drive.
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>http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8f07a3c3d3a7a12d92b86b31bac4f0a0/
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I just looked at the specs for the 500 gig drive. It's SATA II which
gives you 3 gig's a second. The drive I got is SATA I which is 1.5 gig's
a second. SATA I is much faster then IDE but I'll have to see what my 1U
server can do. If it can do SATA II I'll have to make sure I only get
SATA II drives.

With 15 to 20 users storing their files on the server SATA II could make
a big difference.
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Received on Fri Jul 22 11:43:37 2005