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In response to "truman: I wouldn't get the WD Green ones, they wear out -- nm" by Beryllium

I'd get the WD Black. -- nm

Posted by lileve (aka lileve) May 31 '11, 12:50

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that is what I keep thinking, but I just wonder if the upgrade in price is worth it really for a media server. -- nm - tRuMaN May 31, 12:51 20
- a friend mentions that Lower RPM generally means less heat and greater longevity. My two Greens have had decent, but not stellar, longevity. - Beryllium May 31, 12:53 12
  - i have two Blues now. I get some stuttering at times when streaming video - tRuMaN May 31, 12:55 11
    - I will say that I have a WD Black as my primary drive in my Windows machine and I love it. My media drives are whatever Seagate - oblique May 31, 12:57
    - I can't remember what I put in my Mac Pro. I think it's a black, I was going for a green though. -- nm - lileve May 31, 12:57
    - I wouldn't use Windows as a server for the most part, but if I did, I would run the OS on an SSD and only store the served data on HDs. -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 12:56 8
      - its basically a modified version of server 03 - tRuMaN May 31, 13:00 6
        
        I wasn't trying to knock the choice, I was just trying to suggest another angle of attack for possible lag/weirdness issues :) -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 13:03 5
        
        oh i know what is causing the lag. and really it streams fine - tRuMaN May 31, 13:05 1
        
        There's probably a performance-tracking service you could run on it to see how well it handles the load. -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 13:06
        
        SSD but who wants to pay those prices. -- nm - lileve May 31, 13:04 2
        
        Since it would only be used for the OS code, it doesn't have to be a big one -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 13:04 1
        
        How big are OS's these days? I have no clue. -- nm - lileve May 31, 13:05
      - Oddly, my WD Black was as highly rated as an SSD when it came to speed/performance but not nearly as expensive -- nm - oblique May 31, 12:58
- Wouldn't you want a high rpm for streaming media? The cache is what might be over kill. IDK? -- nm - lileve May 31, 12:53 6
  - Even on gigabit networking, you will *never* saturate the bandwidth of the hard drive's top speed. - Beryllium May 31, 12:54 2
    - Yes. -- nm - lileve May 31, 12:56
    - yeah, and my network is gigabit mostly. -- nm - tRuMaN May 31, 12:55
  - i asked that earlier, cause I was reading an article that debated that point. Bery and Kilbo disagreed with each other. -- nm - tRuMaN May 31, 12:53 2
    - I lost track of the thread. My point was basically that unless you're streaming to multiple clients or doing multiple read/write operations to - oblique May 31, 12:56
    - I don't think their drives ever stop working. That might be part of it. -- nm - lileve May 31, 12:55

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