Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Storage Solutions for our OUT-OF-CONTROL iTunes Libraries

As an Amazon Associate, MacRumors earns a commission from qualifying purchases made through links in this post.
twoodcc said:
so those will hold 2 x 2TB drives?
Click to expand...

I dont know for sure, the 2TB drives are too much $. It does with works with 1TB and 1.5TB drives for sure. you could go with that enclosure and 2 1.5 drives for the same cost of a single 2TB drive.



I would bet they would though
 
eegger said:
Apparently you don’t understand Raid 5, first of all it depend on how many drives are in your raid 5 array. The minimum is 3 to have raid 5. You can lose 1 drive in that config and lose no information what so ever. replace the dead drive and it rebuilds. The larger array you have the more drive failures the array can withstand.
Click to expand...

Actually you are incorrect with the last statement. No matter the size, RAID-5 can only withstand one drive loss at a time. There are tricks you can play by having the RAID aware of additional spare drives which it can utilize in the event of a failure however any spare drives do not add to the overall size of the array.

For example I run a RAID-5 with 6x500GB drives. I had a single drive failure which allowed my RAID to continue to operate. I had a second drive failure and the RAID would no longer mount. Luckily I just had to run some repairs on both drives and they both came back up.

I believe RAID-6 tries to address some of these issues however I don't know of anyone who's used it and don't have any first hand experience myself.
 
eegger said:
I dont know for sure, the 2TB drives are too much $. It does with works with 1TB and 1.5TB drives for sure. you could go with that enclosure and 2 1.5 drives for the same cost of a single 2TB drive.



I would bet they would though
Click to expand...

oh ok, thanks. yeah, i might wait for the 2TB prices to come down
 
hey so im guessing you guys are really using you hard drive's, like not just chillin with a couple word doc. and i was wondering,

How long can you expect a hard drive to last ( i have 3 running 24/7, 2 for data, 1 for osx) ?
Like if its consistently on and consistently getting data written and read from it?
 
benlangdon said:
hey so im guessing you guys are really using you hard drive's, like not just chillin with a couple word doc. and i was wondering,

How long can you expect a hard drive to last ( i have 3 running 24/7, 2 for data, 1 for osx) ?
Like if its consistently on and consistently getting data written and read from it?
Click to expand...

why would it consistently be having data written/read to it?? unless you download 24/7 all year long and stuff, or work 24 hours a day (lol) then i dont see this as being a problem..

my hard drives stay on 24/7 prety much, they arent constantly spinned up all the time but they are fine after 3 years.
 
DoFoT9 said:
why would it consistently be having data written/read to it?? unless you download 24/7 all year long and stuff, or work 24 hours a day (lol) then i dont see this as being a problem..

my hard drives stay on 24/7 prety much, they arent constantly spinned up all the time but they are fine after 3 years.
Click to expand...

all my files that are seeding are on one of my externals, and time machine is always backing up.
 
My server is mostly used for storage. I rip all of my DVD's to the server and then access it when I want to through a modded original xbox (this works beautifully in case anyone is wondering).

I do have a couple of drives that never spin down and never stop having stuff written to them.

The Parity drive in my server and disk1 never shut off. The parity is always on because disk one is on. Since I use disk1 as the drive for my torrent downloading and seeding it never shuts down. And since that happens the parity drive has to update what has been written to keep in sync. I have had those 2 drives going near constantly since I got the server set up about a year ago.
 
topher5 said:
Actually you are incorrect with the last statement. No matter the size, RAID-5 can only withstand one drive loss at a time. There are tricks you can play by having the RAID aware of additional spare drives which it can utilize in the event of a failure
Click to expand...

It's all just how you define the terminology You can have a RAID5 setup with a second parity drive. This kind of system would have a minimum of four drives but could stand two failures and still run. you can configure two parity drives and some spares and be set for many failures. Possibilities are endless.

Here at the office we have a disk array with 132 drives. We have three of these arrays and keep them all mirrored. Each array is in a different city so we are set if the big earthquake comes.

At home I'm using a dual drive FW800 enclosure from OWC with a 1.5 and 1.0 TB drive inside.
 
benlangdon said:
hey so im guessing you guys are really using you hard drive's, like not just chillin with a couple word doc. and i was wondering,

How long can you expect a hard drive to last ( i have 3 running 24/7, 2 for data, 1 for osx) ?
Like if its consistently on and consistently getting data written and read from it?
Click to expand...

It is a wide range. Failures rate is what they call a "bathtub" curve, tall at first, then low then slopes upward. There is a high chance the drive will fail very early, even dead out of the box. or within a month. then if it survives this period it should last 3 to 5 years but it can last for 10 years or even more. But for planning purposes you should figure three years but don't be surprized if the drive lasts much longer and don't really trust it until it has been used a least for a few days
 
DoFoT9 said:
what sort of speeds do you upload at??

wish i had unlimited downloads :(
Click to expand...

no unlimited downloads?
private sites?

well for one site i go 10kb for each file and there are like 50 or so or more, then the other two unlimited.

and i have a speed limit timed during the day so my mom can work :p, if i let uploades be unlimited for everything, there would be no internet for our whole house.
 
benlangdon said:
no unlimited downloads?
private sites?

well for one site i go 10kb for each file and there are like 50 or so or more, then the other two unlimited.

and i have a speed limit timed during the day so my mom can work :p, if i let uploades be unlimited for everything, there would be no internet for our whole house.
Click to expand...

haha i presumed you had unlimited downloads/uploads because you said you uploaded 24/7.

i only get 25gb bandwidth between our family :(.

thats a pretty high upload rate, 500kbps is very decent. what do you do?
 
DoFoT9 said:
haha i presumed you had unlimited downloads/uploads because you said you uploaded 24/7.

i only get 25gb bandwidth between our family :(.

thats a pretty high upload rate, 500kbps is very decent. what do you do?
Click to expand...
well since i have no idea if we have a bandwidth limit i prob don't.
i can see almost 1mb/s for a while.

that sucks to have a limit, i just downloaded a 20gb file :eek:, garage band jam packs :D there awsome
 
ooo so i have been hearing this random like deeeeee deeeedeeeeee deeeeeeee sound coming from one of my externals (the one thats always running):confused:
 
benlangdon said:
ooo so i have been hearing this random like deeeeee deeeedeeeeee deeeeeeee sound coming from one of my externals (the one thats always running):confused:
Click to expand...
Spin down/spin up? -> Relocate data elsewhere immediately!
Movement of heads (sounds more like a constant "klicking")? -> No worry!
 
Donar said:
Spin down/spin up? -> Relocate data elsewhere immediately!
Movement of heads (sounds more like a constant "klicking")? -> No worry!
Click to expand...

no i know the clicking, this is a sound i have never heard before from any drive, it just happens i noticed when im accessing a lot of stuff off of it, like seeding maxed out and using itunes.

on another note, now that i have all my files seeding from my external, things have been way slow for everything else on the drive, man do i want an esata card.
 
prostuff1 said:
My server is mostly used for storage. I rip all of my DVD's to the server and then access it when I want to through a modded original xbox (this works beautifully in case anyone is wondering).
Click to expand...
I have 2 old xbox's laying around and I want to mod them. The only problem is that the only links I can find are really old. Can you link me to an updated guide? Thanks.
 
K3mp said:
I have 2 old xbox's laying around and I want to mod them. The only problem is that the only links I can find are really old. Can you link me to an updated guide? Thanks.
Click to expand...

I used this tutorial along with this one. It works best if you have a PC that has 2 IDE channels on it. I had to borrow an old PC from work to get it to work but once I had the proper hardware it when pretty fast.
 
I just got a drobo (4 bay) for doing backups of my 2TB WesternDigital MyBook (connected to my NAS), iPhoto Library and iTunes Library. Does anybody know a good GUI to use & automate rsync on OSX?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back