so I chose striping

[strick94u]

think 1.2 terabytes is to much or am I just right? guess raid 5 would have been better

[Thermopylae_480]

Um, for what? I guess it depends.

[strick94u]

Um, for what? I guess it depends.
Bragging rites?

[Gorre]

Raid5 would have been undoubtedly better.
I wouldnt want to lose 1.2TB of data.


edit: I know it's an off chance, but it's still not one I like the sound of ;)

[bruins004]

What do you have that could possibly need 1 TB or even 500 GB of data.
That is a waste of money.
If you just want to give away your money then give it to me or someone else lol.

To answer your question though, RAID 5 + spare would be the best since it backs up your data pretty good and gives you a good amount of space.

[strick94u]

What do you have that could possibly need 1 TB or even 500 GB of data.
That is a waste of money.
If you just want to give away your money then give it to me or someone else lol.

To answer your question though, RAID 5 + spare would be the best since it backs up your data pretty good and gives you a good amount of space.

your right it would have still been 800 gb's but I keep a running back up on dl dvd
but when you look @ propertys under hard drive it says 1.16 TB is that cool or what
it really didnt cost that much 99 dollars a drive x 4:D

[DanTheBanjoman]

your right it would have still been 800 gb's but I keep a running back up on dl dvd
but when you look @ propertys under hard drive it says 1.16 TB is that cool or what
it really didnt cost that much 99 dollars a drive x 4:D

Right, 130 DVD's as backup :S

[randomperson21]

holy motha....

i don't think anyone needs 1.2tb of data. tell that to someone and they'd think you're insane.

[Thermopylae_480]

Yeah, that's an ungodly amount of storage at this time, for personal use anyway. I would of rather sunk some of that money into a vid card, memory, cpu, etc.

It is kind of cool to say you have a TB of storage, but then you get the inevitable look of disgust that you pointlessly spent that much money. You might be utilizing that much space by 2010. Unless you're storing a bunch of ripped DVDs, or something. Like a lot of pr0n. Before somebody else inevitabley says it :shadedshu .

[DanTheBanjoman]

holy motha....

i don't think anyone needs 1.2tb of data. tell that to someone and they'd think you're insane.

I could easily fill it. I enjoy storing data. Then again not all my data is completely legal, which basically ruins the whole argument to have over a TB.

However, with HDTV quality video you could easily fill it legally. (current camcorders records DVD, how long till they record HDTV?)
Or just the average video enthousiast. Either way, I'd personally use RAID 3 or 5 depending on the data type (large files only > RAID 3).

[Agility]

That's pure crazy for 1 terrabyte.... Its like you're in the 2020++ years...

[b1lk1]

Waste of money better spent on another video card for SLI and bragging rights. I have a 250GB drive I use for movies/data and it is barely half full. I also burn all my movies since you can get a 100PC spindle of 4X DVD blanks on Ebay for $20. Much more cost effective than 4 drives that will see minimal if any usage.

[Gorre]

I have 320 gig storage and it's not nearly enough for my music and films, I have 3Gig and 360Meg free space on my C and E, respectively.

I aim to have over a TB of storage when my next paycheck comes in, I dont see how it's better spent on a graphics card, especially since the DX10 generation is right around the corner. Plus I like having all my data on HDDs, and dislike backing up to DVD, as it takes fking AGES when you have over 80gig of MP3s, not to mention you cant safely alphabetise it, because you're always getting new stuff.

I know people with 3.2TB RAID5 arrays for personal use only at home, and I think it's a fantastic idea. ESPECIALLY if you download a lot of HD movies, which can be around 5Gig for a compressed 720p film.

[t_ski]

What kind of reads and writes do you get with those 4 drives in Raid 0? That might be something more to brag about, then you could just add it the TB as the kicker.

The real question goes to whether or not you really need it. If you need it then it's all good. If not, it's just a waste.

[Darksaber]

Well I have a 3x160GB in stripe on nForce 4:
200+MB/s burst speed if I remember correctly.

I have 2x 300GB PATA drives (one system, one external) a 250GB sATA drive (internal storage) and soon 2x250GB RAID 0 to mirror my 3 disk stripe (will be 2 RAIDable external enclosures on ethernet) so in total 8 drives: 1.83TB of space.


cheers
DS

[DaMulta]

I used to have 1 terabyte when I was big into DVDs all my hard drives are setting in front of me unused and full of DVDs/ 1TB is easy to do with DVD backups.

[gR3iF]

2x250gb and 2x80gb atm
so near to 1tb and the hdds are almost full -.-

[ktr]

its a weird concept...if you have more space to put things...you gonna store a lot of crap. its like my work...when allocate more shelfing space, and the more cluter and stuff we have. that is why i put the smallest of my drives in my comp and the biggest as an external.

[gR3iF]

i just like to have some files called: download or backup its not that i would really need the things in it but they took quite some space
although music and movies makes the biggest amount

[strick94u]

What kind of reads and writes do you get with those 4 drives in Raid 0? That might be something more to brag about, then you could just add it the TB as the kicker.

The real question goes to whether or not you really need it. If you need it then it's all good. If not, it's just a waste.
HaH well it seems to be fast but sandra craps when it try to test it. as for the space well I wont use it all but ill put a dent in it. and yes I could have a secound 7950 but if I find myself wanting another ill go get it in fact next week ill have some extra cash it sounds like fun ill need another vf900 though. I am just a big dumb 46 yearold kid I teach Electronics I live Electronics I am insane but I have storage space:D

[strick94u]

Ok finnly got it to test its reads 311 mb write 318mb burst and acess time is 10.59 ms
fast nuff fer me

[t_ski]

Yep, that's fast. My 2x80GB Hitachi's only get me about 97MB/s.. :(

[DanTheBanjoman]

Ok finnly got it to test its reads 311 mb write 318mb and acess time is 10.59 mb/sec
fast nuff fer me

Access times are in milliseconds, not in MB/s. I hope you just made a silly typo. And 300MB/s also sounds a bit on the high side, I guess that's burst?


To be totally on topic:

OMG OMG OMG I thought Bob was a figure of my imagination, nobody knew it and you seem to do!!! Woopdeedoo!

Seriously, I've used it and it sucked but I liked the dog.

Ok sorry, I'm bored, I'll get on topic: I like stripping too.

[Alec§taar]

Access times are in milliseconds, not in MB/s. I hope you just made a silly typo.

Yes, you got him on that 'nitpick', good humor, but here was the funny part (did you mean to do it?):

I like stripping too.

LOL, you did it too, a "silly typo"... @ least, I hope so! It's 'striping', not stripping.

:)

* Tit for tat, I noted it in your critique to him, & couldn't resist... lol, no offense intended but it was there... just humor!

:)

APK

P.S.=> "PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH!" & do as you say, not as you do... lol! apk

[strick94u]

Access times are in milliseconds, not in MB/s. I hope you just made a silly typo. And 300MB/s also sounds a bit on the high side, I guess that's burst?


To be totally on topic:

OMG OMG OMG I thought Bob was a figure of my imagination, nobody knew it and you seem to do!!! Woopdeedoo!

Seriously, I've used it and it sucked but I liked the dog.

Ok sorry, I'm bored, I'll get on topic: I like stripping too.

yes you are right those are burst and ms it was 1 am and way past bed time :laugh:
I do have a copy of bob here

[strick94u]

Yes, you got him on that 'nitpick', good humor, but here was the funny part (did you mean to do it?):



LOL, you did it too, a "silly typo"... @ least, I hope so! It's 'striping', not stripping.

:)

* Tit for tat, I noted it in your critique to him, & couldn't resist... lol, no offense intended but it was there... just humor!

:)

APK

P.S.=> "PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH!" & do as you say, not as you do... lol! apk

stripping is good also if shes good looking

[strick94u]

ok rerun it with hard drive tach and this looks more better 13.5 ms @ 205 burst average reads 97.5 mb
the other like I said was taken on passmarks advanced test on cold drives
this was hdtach, drives are to say the least warm (I just heated a bagel on them)
so this looks reasonable
somewhere between sata 150 and scsi 320 ultra which means I have an average computer penis?

[Alec§taar]

stripping is good also if shes good looking

No arguments here on that note...

:)

* LOL!

APK

[t_ski]

ok rerun it with hard drive tach and this looks more better 13.5 ms @ 205 burst average reads 97.5 mb
the other like I said was taken on passmarks advanced test on cold drives
this was hdtach, drives are to say the least warm (I just heated a bagel on them)
so this looks reasonable
somewhere between sata 150 and scsi 320 ultra which means I have an average computer penis?


Just for you I ran HDTach myself and got:

210.6 Burst
12.7ms Random Access
97.7 MB/s average read

So I guess that means my computer penis is BIGGER, FASTER, AND HARDER!!!! :rockout:

jk

(I just heated a bagel on them)
:roll:

[strick94u]

Just for you I ran HDTach myself and got:

210.6 Burst
12.7ms Random Access
97.7 MB/s average read

So I guess that means my computer penis is BIGGER, FASTER, AND HARDER!!!! :rockout:

jk


:roll:

yes well I have more empity space :D

[strick94u]

No arguments here on that note...

:)

* LOL!

APK

looking @ your specs is that a new pc ?
looks awesome

[Alec§taar]

looking @ your specs is that a new pc ? looks awesome

It's relatively "old" by today's standards... 7-8 months old!

:)

Before the INTEL CONROE's started coming around? It was "awesome"!

However, now imo @ least, by way of comparison (@ least on benchmark tests we ran here)??

* It's "average stuff" I would say, @ best... nowadays!

APK

P.S.=> Did well on:

AquaMark 3 (placed pretty high up in it: 5th graphics, 8th CPU, 14th overall (around 25 testers or so, including ABSOLUTELY new systems in CONROES of course), CPU was my 'weak' area - even though I try to "offload it" using equipment like my vidcard & hdd caching controller (has built in Intel Super I/O cpu on it to offload system CPU))

HD Tach (placed 1st on Access/Seek & CPU usage, 10k rpm helped there & the Promise Caching Controller too, for the reasons noted above - but, on READ tests? Perpendicular Recording disks got the best of me... I would like to test it on a WRITE test though, to see how it stacks up that way)

ScienceMark 2.0 as of today's scores (vs. CONROES) on its charts w/ a 1440 score (I NEED BETTER, MORE OVERCLOCKABLE RAM bigtime) it's just above the literal MIDPOINT of the scores on the charts, last time I saw the chart updated, that is...

Overall, for what I need (Good gaming & fast read/write/seek on smaller files doing program coding)? It worked out well, even vs. more current systems out there today... apk