Quiet Thunderbolt array storage?
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:33 pm
You know, I get that they're designed for soccer moms and self-absorbed Pretentious Single Designer, but some of us do actually push OS X's envelopes a little and the hardware config of the Apple machines is getting increasingly irritating. For *any* kind of useful storage now we've got to invest in a separate and usually pretty clattery box.
It's pretty much inevitable I'll be replacing the unreliable iMacs with the new Pros after a hackintoshing experiment with HP workstations didn't go as well as I'd planned, and especially for when I'm working in my office at night (in the middle of nowhere in a quiet industrial park, and I'm more of a night person productivity-wise) and main home (in the boondocks, deathly quiet) the existing Pegasus Thunderbolt array storage just really gets on my nerves. The iMacs themselves are quiet (when you let them cook themselves to instability that is) of course and the new Pro can't be far behind, but the drives just makes it a way more noisy combination than a deskside PC workstation with the same internal storage and many times the power. I'd like to mitigate that somewhat with the new pairing.
I don't need silent - though that would be nice of course, but as quiet as possible. Some might say 'stick it in a cabinet' but I do occasionally swap drive sets, and I also have desk configs that make it hard to have anything other than a roughly PC-shaped box under the desk so it'd be inconvenient. I don't mind DIY building if it's not too involved... in fact, if it can act like a deskside pedestal for the Pro (ironic, eh) that would be a good thing.
Does anyone have any recommendations? 4 drives minimum, nothing ridiculous maximum. SATA/SAS I'm not hugely concerned as long as throughput is at least in the 500MB/sec-or-pretty-near class in RAID5.
It's pretty much inevitable I'll be replacing the unreliable iMacs with the new Pros after a hackintoshing experiment with HP workstations didn't go as well as I'd planned, and especially for when I'm working in my office at night (in the middle of nowhere in a quiet industrial park, and I'm more of a night person productivity-wise) and main home (in the boondocks, deathly quiet) the existing Pegasus Thunderbolt array storage just really gets on my nerves. The iMacs themselves are quiet (when you let them cook themselves to instability that is) of course and the new Pro can't be far behind, but the drives just makes it a way more noisy combination than a deskside PC workstation with the same internal storage and many times the power. I'd like to mitigate that somewhat with the new pairing.
I don't need silent - though that would be nice of course, but as quiet as possible. Some might say 'stick it in a cabinet' but I do occasionally swap drive sets, and I also have desk configs that make it hard to have anything other than a roughly PC-shaped box under the desk so it'd be inconvenient. I don't mind DIY building if it's not too involved... in fact, if it can act like a deskside pedestal for the Pro (ironic, eh) that would be a good thing.
Does anyone have any recommendations? 4 drives minimum, nothing ridiculous maximum. SATA/SAS I'm not hugely concerned as long as throughput is at least in the 500MB/sec-or-pretty-near class in RAID5.