Re: 400 gig Hitachi

Damien Hull wrote:

> Damien Hull wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> If anyone needs a bigger drive check out the Hitachi website. I just
>> found out that they make a 500 gig drive.
>>
>> 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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I got the transfer size wrong. It's gigabits per second. Hope this
doesn't confuse any one.
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Received on Fri Jul 22 11:52:04 2005