Wow, that's quite a find that these drives do have head parking enabled? I must say I doubt it.
I am considering buying the Red's for my ZFS raid system, but really need to know if this headparking is audible or not. I dont' need extra noise every 8 seconds.
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- Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:56 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Western Digital Red 4TB & Se 4TB Hard Drives
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- Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:53 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Energy efficient server
- Replies: 26
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@cash: Thanks for the extensive reply! It is enlightening. Here in the Netherlands, the price for the AMD BE-2400 and the E4400 are the same (within a margin of 5 Euro), so the price thing is not a factor. Since performance is better on a E4400 I would go for that one because I also use my server fo...
- Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:15 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD GP vs P7K500 vs 7K200
- Replies: 12
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- Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:21 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Energy efficient server
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12003
I am building a server too, and am wondering, why don't you people go for a Intel E4400 ? According to the specs it has a 8W idle usage. Especially since someone here recommends a Txxx processor, which is lots of money, while the E4400 is around 60 Euro here. Could somebody enlighten me why to go fo...