September 11, 200916 yr http://www.frys.com/product/6002438 I currently have 2x ST31500341AS; thinking of replacing one of my tiny drives with one of these. Any thoughts appreciated.
September 11, 200916 yr newegg.com is having a $10 off promo For the 5900 RPM drives I just bought one for $99 with the promo code +free shipping.
September 15, 200916 yr Sorry you did not get a response here, and my response may not be very helpful because I don't have one, but I haven't heard any complaints yet. Although performance should be impacted a little, no one seems dissatisfied, at least within their usage patterns. And reports do seem to indicate the 5900's run cooler and may use less power. For the standard unRAID usage of primarily large sequential access, there should be little impact. Parity protected writes might suffer, because of longer rotation times. Situations with lots of random access might see some performance loss. There has been some good benchmarking of various drives recently. When I or someone else gets to it, we should copy them to the User Benchmarks wiki page.
September 15, 200916 yr Author Thanks for replying, Rob. I bit the bullet and bought one, and it appears to be serving my purposes just perfectly. As you say, parity-protected writes may be a little slower - my Windows backup is running at around 13MB/s - but most of my write activity is done by background processes where ultimate throughput is less of an issue. Read performance is plenty fast enough for streaming HD video, which is all I ask. Add in the fact that it's running consistently 4-5 degrees C cooler than the equivalent 7200rpm drives, and costs a few dollars less even when not on special, and I'd say it's a no-brainer.
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