terrastrife

that clears a lot up, except i have sata power connnectors IDT fit i should probably mention my psu uses 16 awg wiring too, not the usual 18/20 awg.

Uhm, no. then please define how the amperage load is divided between the 4 connectors. i hav eno issues running 12/16 hdds off a single line off my psu with sata cli pon connectors i assume psu modular connectors pins are very much identical to the pins used in a molex 4 pin connector.

so thats 11 amps per pin? thers 4 pins

depends on the gauge of the wiring some psu come with really fat wires.

theyre highpoint minisas to 4 sata forward cables. yes its a v2000.

no one ever said pimp your unRAID box, this is my main desktop.

Yes, really. Reread the following statement which seems aimed at all GPs. remember, GP's are NOT Caviar Green. WD used the GreenPower tag before they instroduced the Black/Blue/Green. also, i did start with 'for me', nto sure how you managed to quote from that same reply, but not include the part with i started with FOR ME.

really? i started with 'for me' not for you, not for everyone. i have eacs green powers, before they were labelled as 'green'

i have older green drive you know, the original ones

reading a 7k goes from 130MB to 80MB, readking a GP goes form around 80MB to 50MB. a 7K is essentially twice as fast as a GP, but as its only slowed down for ahlf of its data the increase would be half of twice, hence 50% or so. Final average parity check speed with just 7K's was 95MB/sec (started 120+) with teh additional GP drive its down to 60MB-ish (started 80), didnt quick have a look when it was done. Gets even worse if you have WD blacks and greens in one unRAID, these are even quicker than 7K's.

for me, the process would be 50% faster, as the WD greens are half the speed of the Hitachi 7K's (ie, the 7K is pulled back to the speed of the GP for half of its data size). What would be better is to 'right align' the data bytes, not put a wait timer so that all disks end at the same time, ie a 1TB disk starts as soon as theres 1TB left of parity on a 1 TB drive. this would of corse mean a totally different way of writing parity.