WD 1TB Green Raid1 for HTPC?

Lanz

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Right now I'm using just one WD 1TB Green for my media center. All good, virtually silent bla bla.

I was thinking of buying another to make a RAID1 array (getting a bit paranoid about losing all my recordings) + a 30GB SSD for the Win7 install.

Anyone using the 2 x 1TB Greens in RAID1? Im a little worried about the variable rpm they are reported to have. Or if they might resonate from each other, causing excess noise.

Thoughts?

Cheers
 
Will one of those £95 samsung SSD drives be ok for my Windows 7 install. I dont need lots of speed what with it being as media center. Just stability.
 
If you don't want speed, then for a non-portable computer the only reason for SSD would really be silence.. additional reliability of SSDs would be completely counteracted by spending the extra SSD money on RAID1 and backup HDDs.
 
Well in my HTPC case I have 2 x 3 1/2" bays, Those will be populated by 2 x 1TB Raid1.
So I was just going to shuve an SSD in there just for the OS.

I dont want to raid1 the OS, I dont care if it goes **** up, I just want to raid1 the media volume. Lack of Space, Heat and Silence are the issues.
 
An SSD is a complete waste of money for a media PC unless it's one of the dirt cheap and dirt slow ones, and then since you already have mechanical drives you're not getting much of a silence advantage when they're not spun down. If you want a separate OS drive perhaps a quiet notebook one.
 
I went from 1 disk, to RAID1, to RAID5, to RAID10 with these disks - all fine.
I have a total of 6 of them and I'll be going RAID5 with 6 disks at some point before I buy some more.

Quiet and cool - simples
 
Good to hear.

Do you use a separate disk/s for your OS, or does your RAID10 array contain your boot partition too?
 
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