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Recommend me 10.000RPM HDD with more than 1TB

Mistral73 said:
Thank you very much for your response philipma1957.

I do not know much about enclosure test methodology. The speed quoted in the link: are they burst speed, average speed or neither?

Also, your mentioned ealier in the thread that you have tested several several HD and that the Towerstor TS2CT was your favourite one.
- Would you mind giving the list of HD tested ?
- Was the TS2CT faster than the others?

As I am also considering the Onnto DataTale RS-M2QO and the Icy Dock MB662USEB-2S, I was wondering if you had tested these enclosures? If so, are they faster than the Towerstor TS2CT?

Many thanks
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methodology was 3 or 4 xbench tests a few huge supderclones run them as boot drives for a week or so.
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I have a one bay datatale it is pretty good.

http://oyendigital.com/external-hard-drive.html It is pretty good for a one bay runs a little hot
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for two bay units I had tested a sans digital


http://store.sansdigital-shop.com/ms2c1.html


built like a tank a little noisy very very very very very stable.
older hard to find one,
not smoking fast.

jbod or raid0

2tb max so 2 2tbs as jbod or 2 1tbs as raid0
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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ME8SR320GB16/

used to come empty very fast in a raid0 setting stable with good hdds like wd re4 2tb hdds. A little noisy. ran this with a pair of wd re4s 2tb as a raid0. 4tb time machine it was stable for 14 months. I then sold the hdds. the fastest of all raid0 setups tested. noisy a bit flakey with some drives.

I had two empty fw800 fw400 usb2 cases. One fan died the other still works.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________ http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MEQX2KIT0GB/

this 4 bay unit as a raid0 with 4 samsung f3's is silly fast. it runs 20 percent faster as a 4tb boot drive then the internal 7200rpm hdd in my iMac with a fw800 hookup. it is only okay stable with the samsungs. sucks as a raid5. it is very nice as a wd re4 hdd user.
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sans digital ts2ct
very stable
lots of setting via lcd screen
quiet
fast with fw800.

it will also combine 2 hdds in raid0 as esata
it will clone at 195 with 2 wd raptors
it will clone at 185 with 2 samsung f3s

it will allow a 6tb boot volume with a pair of wd 3tb hdds in raid0.
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I tested this unit


http://eshop.macsales.com/Basket_Show.cfm

it is good but not so stable.


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http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/RAID/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB

I have two of these coming going to test them as a 2x esata mac mini hack
 
Hardly anybody is asking the right question, which I think is "do you really need this in the first place?"

Just what are you doing with "sound libraries" that requires such speed?

I'm assuming you think you have a need for a high sequential read speed. But, why?

You say your current setup in "barely cutting it"?

At what?

Surely not streaming, because audio files, even at the highest possible resolution, aren't going to be much of a challenge for any hard drive made today.

Are you, say, sucking in 100 "sound libraries" to memory every time you run some editing program?

I have a feeling you have some bottleneck somewhere else that you are perceiving as a need for high disk read speed.

Perhaps your sound libraries are in a form such that they aren't easily accessible in an indexed form. Like, some kind of archive (.zip files?) where the whole file (or a large part of the file) has to be read to recover a small clip.
 
Thank you philipma1957.

Please let us know how the OWC Elite Pro Dual Mini turns out.
 
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jtara said:
Hardly anybody is asking the right question, which I think is "do you really need this in the first place?"

Just what are you doing with "sound libraries" that requires such speed?

I'm assuming you think you have a need for a high sequential read speed. But, why?

You say your current setup in "barely cutting it"?

At what?

Surely not streaming, because audio files, even at the highest possible resolution, aren't going to be much of a challenge for any hard drive made today.

Are you, say, sucking in 100 "sound libraries" to memory every time you run some editing program?

I have a feeling you have some bottleneck somewhere else that you are perceiving as a need for high disk read speed.

Perhaps your sound libraries are in a form such that they aren't easily accessible in an indexed form. Like, some kind of archive (.zip files?) where the whole file (or a large part of the file) has to be read to recover a small clip.
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Yeah. If this is to cure the "Disks too slow" warning in Logic it will not fix it.
I never get issues with 1 boot SSD, 1 7200RPM for samples, 1 7200RPM for audio and storage. Maybe 1 contiguous volume is the problem? Are you booting off the same volume?
 
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