Recent content by Dynomight

Nevermind. A vendor informed me this type of cooling requires a 5-7.5 HP compressed air source. I happen to already have that in the garage, but I don't know that I would want to run it 24 x 7 x 365. More research and comparisons are in my future.

I ended up keeping the Blacks and putting them into a RAID10. 4+ months and still no problems. :)

Hosting externally is not an option (just wanted to get that out of the way). Basically, I want to build a "data center" environment in my garage for my mid-tower server which runs dual CPUs (Xeon E5620s) and 6 HDDs usually at low-mid loads. It is currently a testing machine I use inside my...

I am planning a RAID 0 (4 HDD). What would I be giving up if I went with the (lower cost) Reds?

So, a couple of years ago, I snapped up four 2 TB WD Caviar Blacks when there was scant information regarding suitability in RAIDs. As the machine was a test server, I configured all four as RAID 0 and did daily backups. Sure enough, eventually one of the drives began underperfoming...