large disks
Mar. 17th, 2009 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoThe new disks arrived. I'm pretty sick; I had just about enough logic to plug them in to an external caddy and start running a filesystem create with bad blocks checking.
(The new Western Digital "green" drives are very, very quiet. Even quieter than Seagates.)
I was upset at how the counter was labeled in hundredths of a percent, and it was taking a significant amount of time to do each click. Then I remembered that these are terabyte disks. 1% = 10 gigabytes. 0.1%=1 gigabyte. 4 seconds for 0.01% is 25MB/s, about 1/3 the speed I expect to get when plugged into a SATA bus, perfectly adequate for USB.
Going back to bed.
(The new Western Digital "green" drives are very, very quiet. Even quieter than Seagates.)
I was upset at how the counter was labeled in hundredths of a percent, and it was taking a significant amount of time to do each click. Then I remembered that these are terabyte disks. 1% = 10 gigabytes. 0.1%=1 gigabyte. 4 seconds for 0.01% is 25MB/s, about 1/3 the speed I expect to get when plugged into a SATA bus, perfectly adequate for USB.
Going back to bed.
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Date: 2009-03-17 04:57 pm (UTC)Also, record tons of tv shows and keep them around for the kids.