[mythtv-users] NAS power supply

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, October 10, 2008 10:02 am, John Drescher wrote:
>>> Check out the 1.5TB drives at newegg.
>>>
>> Wow they finally have them. Thanks.
>> Seagate 7200.11
>> 750GB   @ $109
>> 1000GB @ $129
>> 1500GB @ $189
>
> Actually not a bad deal - price / GB is nearly linear....
>
> Gotta love it.  I ordered 3 of the 1TB drives - not realizing they had 1.5
> TB drives.  The case I have will take 20 SATA drives - maybe the next
> batch will be 1.5 TB and I'll move the 1TB drives to my 6 drive RAID-6
> array and replace the 400 GB drives there....
>
Also the 1.5TB drives are supposed to be a little faster. I mean
hdparm of 120MB/s instead of 105 with the 750 and 1000.

> Gotta love it.  I have more storage than a large data center did a few
> years ago....
>
This is going to make my work server with 20 x 250GB drives in raid
look silly and very energy inefficient..

John