Recent content by julianboolean

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    Estimating Volts / Watts When Shopping For A UPS (Animation Workstation)

    If anybody can help with an estimation, it would be greatly appreciated! My only concern is having a few minutes to shut down safely in the event of an outage, and of course, protection from spikes and lightning strikes. I currently only have a surge protector. Here's my workstation Mac Pro...
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    Purchasing Concerns, Future Proofing With 4KN Format Drives?

    Hi All, I am researching the purchase of 3 sets of hard drives, for three RAID arrays. I have a bad case of analysis paralysis and hope to get some assistance on this issue. Question : Should I invest in 4KN drives now? I am wondering If 5 years down the road I will be kicking myself for...
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    Any SATA HD drives which are <1 in 10^16 ? (notation for unrecoverable read error rate)

    Question : I am wondering if there are any SATA hard drives available which are <1 in 10^16? Why Asking : The blog-o-shpere is full of comments from 2013-2014 which indicate that Western Digital RE drives are <1 in 10^16. However, looking at the current pdf specs available on that unit...