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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    11/16/09

    In reply to The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of...the Hills
    If you speed them up to 45, I'm pretty sure it's playing "Yackety Sax". #art
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of...the Hills
    Where can I get the CD? #art
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    11/14/09

    In reply to The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of...the Hills
    That's no music, that's the sound of the Earth screaming as it's being raped... #art
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    Image of EU_dig EU_dig
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of...the Hills

    Kids these day's with their hip-hop music and fancy iPods. Back in my day, we had to drag a phonograph across an entire field... uphill both ways... in the snow... wearing our Sunday best, just to make a sound!

    And we liked it! #art
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    Image of Joe Stoner Joe Stoner
    11/14/09

    @EU_dig: You were lucky to have a field! We were evicted from our field and had to go live in a lake!

    Ah, but we were happier back then. #art
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of...the Hills
    Given that dirt is pretty much tiny, tiny stones, does that make this...rock music? #puncraft #art
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    Image of FamiCube64 FamiCube64
    11/14/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: Drag it through Japan for some heavy metal. #art
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of...the Hills
    Geez, those people are seriously straining to get that damn phonograph to scrape the dirt. I like how it's almost entirely OLD people, doing HEAVY lifting, dragging a giant PHONOGRAPH. So bizarre.

    PS: great article title. I laughed.
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    Edited by Gordonium at 11/14/09 11:56 AM Gordonium was starred Gordonium was unstarred
    Image of theorieofself theorieofself
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    i'm running (6) 7200rpm drives in my FreeNAS box. i guess i could have gone with 5400rpm, but i already had all the hardware so i didn't really buy new components when i put the unit together.

    @waclark57 i think you missed the point. the post clearly says, "The main bottleneck in any NAS is the RAID engine. Since many NAS units don't include a dedicated controller, oftentimes the speed of the drive just doesn't matter. If you're using a blazing-fast hardware RAID card in your own custom built setup, then drive speed might make a difference. But for most consumer units, the controller is the bottleneck."

    with that in mind, drive speed obviously isn't an issue in consumer based NAS systems. sure if you have maddd money to spend on high end hardware, and you have a beefy raid controller, 10k or 15k drives will make a difference. #diy
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    Image of Bluechip Bluechip
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    I'm using Western Digital Green drives in my unRAID setup. [www.lime-technology.com]

    Currently at 2TB + parity and expandable up to 6 drives before I have to upgrade the software license to the next tier (16 drives). #diy
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    11/09/09

    @Bluechip: I use greens as well, different setup however. #diy
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    Image of travisco_nabisco travisco_nabisco
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    I read this article yesterday and there are a few points that need to be noted. First they used older 7200 RPM drives and current generation 5400 RPM drives. It would have been more meaningful if both sets of drives were current generation.

    The other note is that if you are setting up RAID 1 the 7200 RPM drives may actually be faster. This is because in the article they rationalize that it is the lack of a hardware RAID controller that causes the bottle neck because the CPU is doing all the XOR calculations. However in RAID 1 no XOR's are calculated because the drives contents are identical.

    just my 2 cents #diy
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    That's why you get one of these:
    [www.promise.com]

    Put half in RAID 0 and half as backup....(I forget which RAID number that makes it) and hook it up via Fibre channel to your Xserve that you're logged into via open directory (and that your home folder is hosted on) via gigabit ethernet.

    :D #diy
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    11/07/09

    @TheCrudMan: RAID 0+1 #diy
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    What would LHer's recommend in terms of the best reliability 1TB drives for a NAS? Is that size in the sweet spot at this point? Am I going to significantly decrease reliability using 2TB drives? #diy
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    Image of David Frederick Becker David Frederick Becker
    11/07/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: The Western Digital Caviar Black drives are by far the most reliable. [www.newegg.com]
    In fact, I just ordered two of these yesterday!
    Judging from current trends, virtually all of the 2TB drives currently out have pretty bad reliability track records. I had considered them, too, but I don't want to waste money on them.
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    AmphetamineCrown promoted this comment Edited by David Frederick Becker at 11/07/09 1:15 PM David Frederick Becker was starred David Frederick Becker was unstarred
    Image of brisketboy brisketboy
    11/07/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: If you're primary goal is the reliability of an individual drive and you're willing to pay the premium an "enterprise" drive like the Barracuda ES.2 or something from the newer Constellation line is going to give you the best reliability, especially if you plan on running 24/7.

    If cost is more of a factor, you might consider 1.5TB drives. Seagate (Barracuda LP), WD (Caviar Green), and Samsung (Eco Green F2) all have low-spindle-speed 1.5TB drives. Put them in a RAID 5 or RAID 6 configuration for reliability, utilize the 3-year warranty if needed, and you'll be fine.

    I personally just put together a NAS with 6 1.5 TB Barracuda LPs in a RAID 6 running the Openfiler NAS software and its been running like a champ. 70MB/s over gigabit ethernet without jumbo frames enabled. #diy
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/07/09

    @brisketboy: @David Frederick Becker: I've actually been using the Barracuda ES.2s in my 6 drive ReadyNAS. It is about a year old, and I replaced one a couple months ago when the monitoring software started detecting errors. Now I'm starting to see errors on two other drives. As easy as they are to replace, I'm not really liking the concept of running through 3 drives a year.

    Maybe I'll try the Caviar black drives and see how they do. Seems like I'm going to develop quite the history with replacing drives. #diy
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    Image of The-Simpsons-Rule!! The-Simpsons-Rule!!
    05/15/09

    In reply to Light As Performance Art
    Simply amazing.
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    Image of Brendan Bell Brendan Bell
    02/11/09

    In reply to Ultimate Windows Tweaker Now Works On Windows 7
    Can I use it to tweak Vista so it stops sucking?
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    02/11/09

    @Brendan Bell: Can we tweak Facebookers to stop trolling?
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