[Leica] Drive question.

[Spencer Cheng]

If you are planning to use something like a RAID-5 configuration, use smaller drives (1TB?). Enterprise NAS/SAN servers are still using very small HDDs by modern standards for reliability reasons.

All drives will fail sooner or later at the most inconvenient time. Mine usually fails when I am travelling.

Recording densities are so high now that transfer rates varies very little between different rotational speed. It’s latency which really counts. 10K and 15K HDD has lower latency but traded off against noise, power and reliability.

In general, server grade HDDs are more reliable. Consumer grade HDDs are less. In general…

If you want fast, go for a rack full of SSDs. :) 

Regards,
Spencer

> On Nov 13, 2016, at 13:27, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Any opinions out there as to a good drive for a NAS enclosure?
> 
> Leo Wesson
> leowesson.com
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