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Newegg 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB Hard Drive Ratings – What is the best drive manufacturer

Posted on 10 June 2010. Tags: drive category, drive models, egg, hard drive, hard drives, hitachi, impressions, newegg, population, Review, samsung, Seagate, tally, weighted score, western digital

This weekend I woke up one morning and decided that I wanted to know if retail packaged drives had a lower DOA rate than OEM drives from Newegg. In all fairness, I think I was just trying to put off a 5am Saturday morning gym trip for a few hours. I ended up filtering Newegg’s hard drive category by internal drives of 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB in capacity. I then went through each result and recorded the quantity of reviews for each of Newegg’s awesome egg-scale along with a few other parameters. It turns out that Newegg did not have as much information on retail packaged hard drives as I had wanted, but I found some interesting results nonetheless. Anyone can do this survey, but hopefully this saves some time. For the most up-to-date information see Newegg.

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Exclude System Disk from Server Storage in Windows Home Server (WHS) V2 Vail

Posted on 29 April 2010. Tags: agility, conjecture, counterparts, default installation, disk space requirement, hard drives, home server, Norco, Raid 1, redundancy, rpc, SAS, server machines, server storage, server v2, SSD, system os, vail, vertex, whs v2, WHS V2 Vail, Windows Home Server, windows home server v2, windows home server vail, x25

Many Windows Home Server machines utilize a smaller OS disk (oftentimes in Raid 1 for redundancy) and then large SATA 3.5″ disks for storage. Common 2.5″ disks are laptop drives as well as SSDs. Another factor influencing their popularity in home-built WHS boxes is the fact that the Norco RPC-4220 (a popular home server 4U rackmount enclosure) has the ability to house two 2.5″ hard drives in addition to 20 SAS or SATA drives. Smaller form factor drives tend to be of lower capacity than larger 3.5″ counterparts, so some users may be wondering with the new requirement of a 160GB Operating System (OS) disk in Windows Home Server (WHS) V2 Vail if it is possible to lower the OS disk space requirement.

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DuplicationInfo: WHS Add-in Review

Posted on 29 April 2010. Tags: add-in, algorithm, copy contents, copying music, deduplication, directory structure, driectory, duplication technology, excerpt, folder structure, hand pane, hard drive copying, hard drives, hitachi, home server, microsoft, microsoft windows, photos, Raid 1, WHS, Windows Home Server

DuplicationInfo is a small Windows Home Server (WHS) add-in that allows one to see what Drive Extender is doing. More specifically, DuplicationInfo allows a user to map a specific file stored on the WHS to the drives being used.

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WHS Drive Extender v2 Dissected at Anandtech

Posted on 28 April 2010. Tags: chunks, compatability, dissection, drive extnder, ECC, fashion, hard drives, ntfs, raid 0, storage pool, v1, v2, ZFS

A quick browse of Anandtech.com shows a nice dissection of WHS Drive Extender v2.

The review goes into changes from Drive Extender v1, the way NTFS and the storage pool interact, 1GB file chunks distributed across hard drives in a Raid 0 fashion, 2 bit ECC, application compatability, and even a comparison with ZFS.

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