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1TB consumer desktop drives finally shipping - hopefully K won't be too far behind

rgbyhkr

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Well, this is what I have been waiting for. Hopefully, the wait between general consumer desktop drive availability and K drive availability of the same size won't be as long as it was for 750GB drives (about 6 months between the 2 last year if I remember right). Once K offers 1TB drives, I'll be onboard for a new 3U server with a few drives to add onto the 2 full 5U servers I have now.

Anyone else eager to get 1TB drives for the K?

Jeff
 
Well, this is what I have been waiting for. Hopefully, the wait between general consumer desktop drive availability and K drive availability of the same size won't be as long as it was for 750GB drives (about 6 months between the 2 last year if I remember right). Once K offers 1TB drives, I'll be onboard for a new 3U server with a few drives to add onto the 2 full 5U servers I have now.

Anyone else eager to get 1TB drives for the K?

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

Absolutely, I've got a couple of owners that will not buy any more drives until the 1TB's are released. One is saving the last 4 empty slots in his 5U for the 1TB's.

Once we get HD (BR/HD-DVD) we'll need a bunch of those 1T's!! (and likely 3U's as well).

Jim
 
Can you mix and match drive sizes in a server? I figured you couldn't due to the RAID feature. That would be cool if you could. Ive just about maxed out the 5U server with the 750gb drives. I figure within the next year I will want to add the new 3U...
 
Jerry,

I currently have 6 750 GB and 6 400 GB drives in my 5U server and it works great.

Scott
 
Can you mix and match drive sizes in a server? I figured you couldn't due to the RAID feature. That would be cool if you could. Ive just about maxed out the 5U server with the 750gb drives. I figure within the next year I will want to add the new 3U...

Absolutely. When moving up to a larger drive (i.e. 750 to 1TB) you "lose" the additional capacity from the first 1T because that capacity (250gb in the example) must be dedicated to RAID (to cover the highest capacity disk in the system). Therefore, you would only have 750gb of content storage available on your first 1T, but all subsequent 1T's would of course have full capacity.

Jim
 
Absolutely. When moving up to a larger drive (i.e. 750 to 1TB) you "lose" the additional capacity from the first 1T because that capacity (250gb in the example) must be dedicated to RAID (to cover the highest capacity disk in the system). Therefore, you would only have 750gb of content storage available on your first 1T, but all subsequent 1T's would of course have full capacity.

Jim

Does that hold for the 3U servers as well? I was under the impression that they use 2 slots for redundancy so I would guess than that the first 2 larger drives would not offer their full capacities. Is that accurate?

Thanks

Jeff
 
Does that hold for the 3U servers as well? I was under the impression that they use 2 slots for redundancy so I would guess than that the first 2 larger drives would not offer their full capacities. Is that accurate?

Thanks

Jeff

Jeff,

Actually, there is still only one drive for "RAID." The other drive you are referring to is the "hot swap" drive that is used to accept data necessary to replace a drive that has gone bad. Another way to look at it is that this second drive is in your 3U "waiting" to be used in the event of a disk failure. Ordinarily, this disk would have been the one K would send you in the event of a disk failure, to replace the disk that failed. This of course leaves the system vulnerable to a total loss of all data should a second disk fail while waiting for the replacement. Now, because of the "hot swap," this disk exchange takes place immediately, thereby significantly reducing the risk of a total failure.

The third disk in the 3U system is obviously the only content storage disk. In a 3U system, that comes with 3 disks, there is only one disk for content storage, the other 2 disks are as just described.

I hope that is clear!

Jim
 
Jeff,

Actually, there is still only one drive for "RAID." The other drive you are referring to is the "hot swap" drive that is used to accept data necessary to replace a drive that has gone bad. Another way to look at it is that this second drive is in your 3U "waiting" to be used in the event of a disk failure. Ordinarily, this disk would have been the one K would send you in the event of a disk failure, to replace the disk that failed. This of course leaves the system vulnerable to a total loss of all data should a second disk fail while waiting for the replacement. Now, because of the "hot swap," this disk exchange takes place immediately, thereby significantly reducing the risk of a total failure.

The third disk in the 3U system is obviously the only content storage disk. In a 3U system, that comes with 3 disks, there is only one disk for content storage, the other 2 disks are as just described.

I hope that is clear!

Jim

Just to clarify the above statements, obviously once you start putting 1TB's into the 3U servers, you will, in addition to the 1TB that needs to be set aside for RAID, need a 1TB drive to act as the "hot swap" to recover content should a 1TB drive fail.

Jim
 
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