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May 1, 2008 8:33 PM

I have had 4 500G seagates in the Mediasmart and they ran well but I switch 3 of the seagates out for 3 WD 1TB GREEN WD10EACS and they are much quieter than the seagates and run around 4-5 degrees C cooler with no perceptible loss in performance. I really like the Western Digital Green Power drives. I left the system drive as a 500G seagate because I see no reason to waste a terabyte drive since it's just a transfer drive and 500G is big enough for me

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May 2, 2008 6:10 PM

I'm also using a WD Green Power drive, the 750GB version. Very quite and cool running.

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May 4, 2008 9:32 AM

I purchased a HD 1T|ST 7K 32M SATA2 ST31000340AS from newegg.com; works fine, seems fast, not too loud (although noise level is not an issue for me because of where I have the server located).

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May 5, 2008 4:34 PM

I'm using eleven 750GB WD green drives with my MSS. They are very quiet and run cool.

8TB MSS(11 WD 750GB GP drives), CFI port Multiplier, 4 bay USB, 2GB, LE-1640

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May 5, 2008 8:28 PM

Like ERAIL I recommend the 1TB GREEN WD10EACS drives. They are much quieter than the Seagate drives and run around 7-10 degrees C cooler. I see no performance difference in a 100MB LAN and doubt there would be any with a 1GB LAN. I, too, left the system drive as the MSS 500GB Seagate because I see no reason to waste a TB drive since it is effectively justa temporary transfer point.

Since I have an EX475 my drives are currently 500-500-1000 but the next time I do a factory reset I expect to change that to 500-1000-500 to get a better utilization. Eventually it will be 500-1000-1000-1000.

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MSS: HP EX475+1TB WD (2TB tot), 2 GB RAM, LE-1640, APC UPS
PC1: Vista/32 Ultimate w/150GB Raptor RAID-2 (C:) & 4x320GB RAID-5 data (D:)
PC2: Laptop, XP Home

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May 5, 2008 8:54 PM

JohnBick said: Like ERAIL I recommend the 1TB GREEN WD10EACS drives. They are much quieter than the Seagate drives and run around 7-10 degrees C cooler. I see no performance difference in a 100MB LAN and doubt there would be any with a 1GB LAN. I, too, left the system drive as the MSS 500GB Seagate because I see no reason to waste a TB drive since it is effectively justa temporary transfer point. Since I have an EX475 my drives are currently 500-500-1000 but the next time I do a factory reset I expect to change that to 500-1000-500 to get a better utilization. Eventually it will be 500-1000-1000-1000.

I use the 750GB green drives because they are much cheaper per GB than the 1TB drives. Plus they run slightly cooler since they use 3 platters instead of 4.

8TB MSS(11 WD 750GB GP drives), CFI port Multiplier, 4 bay USB, 2GB, LE-1640

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May 10, 2008 10:37 AM

I have 4 Seagate 7200.11 in the drive pool and 4 1 TB Western Digital GP drives as backup.
I bought the GP drives after I filled the 4 bays of the MSS. I tried using one GP drive in the drive pool with the seagates but it went crazy...so I use the GP for backup only

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