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  1. Hi All Bought one of the lime-tech servers a few years ago. just moved house and it's much closer to home theater and fans are WAY too loud. Anyone know of any much quieter compatible fans? Thanks mark
  2. Thought some of you may be interested in this: http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
  3. is it worth spending that much on a cache. i'm getting > 100MByte/sec to a 5900 RPM drive, so we're approaching wire speed on Ethernet. Unless you have multiple network adapters AND the CPU could keep them going full tilt, I wouldn't think you'd see much benefit
  4. Great deal with 3 year warranty. Snagged 4 for my backup server
  5. Yes, they do have a shorter warranty (I believe 2 years but would have to check), but in my experience if a drive survives the infant mortality stage it will last for at least 4 years, if not longer. I do seem to recall something called the bathtub reliability curve for electronics and it generally holds true in my experience. This says that the likelihood of failure is significantly higher in the first 10% and last 10% of it's life. Naturally, we want the start of the end curve to be as far out as possible :-)
  6. I'm with the dirtysanchez on this one. So am I. I started replacing all my older drives (mixture of WD Greens and older Seagates) with the ST3000DM001 3TB drives a year ago. I have been buying two at a time, over time - just in case this model turned out to be a lemon and to minimize bad batch problems. To date, there have been zero failures (probably shouldn't say that - tempting fate ). They run cooler than the drives they replaced and are much faster. If I get three to four years out of them, I will consider it a total success. I see the helium drives are just around the corner. By the time my next replacement cycle starts, this new technology should be proven out or not, reducing risk. Only 2 year warranty though, no? Realistically how much faster do you think parity calc is?
  7. That is a pretty big assertion. If you cannot provide a reliabile source of data to backup such a statement then it is only your opinion. Plus, WD will not warranty desktop drives in a NAS/RAID. Of course, they need to figure out it was in a RAID/NAS
  8. Matter of opinion. Cost/TB isn't the only factor to consider. The lowest cost drives are good extra drives for backups; but for the drives I'm running 24/7 I want the reliability of a NAS-qualified unit. Agreed. I buy the cheapies for temp storage and stuff like DVR recordings, but my media lib and archives are on NAS-specific drives. Will be putting backup server (local backup of NAS) in garage and will use cheapies for that too.
  9. I'm looking for 4TB WD Red or Seagate NAS. Already picked up a two 4TB Seagte externals for $119 and $139 each (after rebates and offers), but there just for temp desktop storage and ISO backups on desktop
  10. Anyone got any idea where this link is? I don't see it anywhere on Amex site Found it under My Account -> Offers for You (mine is Amex Open card)
  11. Anyone got any idea where this link is? I don't see it anywhere on Amex site
  12. It's not, it's in general support: Lime Technology - unRAID Server Community » Support » General Support