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#1 jmhenry5150

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 11:38 AM

I have been reading and learning - and acquiring my pieces for my first build...so here ya go:See anything amiss?

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 11:42 AM

How are you going to get 8 drives in that case?
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 12:14 PM

6 big drives in the 3.5" bay, then in the 5 1/4 bay I have an adapter to combine 2 x 2.5" drives...

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 12:23 PM

Think about the green drives. Again I have not had a problem with my WD green Ears but I did change the firmware so the heads dont park so much.
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 12:47 PM

We have the ability to change the firmware on the hard drives?!?!?!

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 12:51 PM

I thought the new Red Series drives were about the same price you mentioned. I've not used the WD Green drives but I think the issue was the heads were parking way too often and the firmware update changed that.
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 01:46 PM

Now that we have a choice, go for the red drives. Otherwise looks like a great system. I have not had any issues with the green but using a drive made for raid without spending a fortune makes sense.

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 02:12 PM

Yes WD gave a small command line exe that allowed you to turn off the constant head parking.
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 07:47 PM

Now that we have a choice, go for the red drives. Otherwise looks like a great system. I have not had any issues with the green but using a drive made for raid without spending a fortune makes sense.


Agreed. I have a relative in the Access Control business. He sells/installs/maintains a lot of industrial DVRs. I just told him he should really look at Red drives for them.

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Posted 29 July 2012 - 10:13 AM

Yes WD gave a small command line exe that allowed you to turn off the constant head parking.


Great solution if you already have the drives. Do you have the link to how to get the software?

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 06:43 AM

The machine is all built out (with the exception of the data drives)...and the OS installed!!!

I actually can't believe how easy it has been so far - knock on wood.

Updates are running now...tonight I will start getting the OS setup - then I install the data drives (that's another $300, so it may have to wait a bit :( )

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 08:38 AM

Right after the OS has updated, I recommend you make an image backup of the drive, just in case.

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 08:41 AM

Right after the OS has updated, I recommend you make an image backup of the drive, just in case.


Back in the day I would use Ghost - what is used today to make drive images?

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 08:59 AM

Ghost is still available AFAIK. However, you can use the built in Windows Server Backup, or Acronis, or a number of utilities out there. I mostly use WHS backup, but I also use Windows Server Backup and Acronis sometimes.

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 01:40 PM

If you want a free solution, look for Hiren's Boot CD which has a version of Ghost on it. Ghost is falling behind in the corporate imaging world with SCCM and WDS taking over those duties.
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Posted 31 July 2012 - 02:30 PM

Yes. SCCM & WDS are going to really alter how corporate computers get deployed. Plunk it down, turn it on, walk away. When the user gets moved in to the office, it's all set and ready to go.

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 07:28 AM

Ok the OS is installed...again!

I installed the OS and mirrored the drive in Disk Manager - but it didn't look right to me...there was a 100 MB partition that didn't get mirrored...hmmm....I don't know much about the mirroring in Windows, so I decided to go in a different direction.

I headed out to Microcenter and bought one of these (same thing as the Icy Dock):

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16817990020

Set it to RAID 1 and off I went with a reinstall...prob didn't need to reinstall but oh well...

Now I have a true RAID 1 mirrored OS drive...

As soon as the cables come in I will be setting up the RAID 5 data array of 3x3 TB...whoo!

More updates soon.

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 02:51 PM

That thing looks really cool. Could it look any more like an ordinary 3.5" HDD? I don't think so. It looks like a WD Blue, except it has no black 1/2" dots on it (maybe you could add some) :D

Question: are the drives easy to remove? Is it just a case of opening the door and popping out the drive(s)?

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Posted 03 August 2012 - 06:48 AM

The drives are super easy to remove...

FYI, the setup could not have been easier.

Pop the 2 drives in, select the RAID switch to 1, boot PC and it sees 1 drive...\

I just wonder how I would go about testing this thing?

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Posted 03 August 2012 - 07:52 AM

Power down, pull the second drive out and reboot. This will be the ultimate test.
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