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Turns out the damage was a bit more severe than a bad cable. They could still be repaired for less than the cost of a new pair, but not enough less that it seemed worth it. So new Etys are on the way.

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That's because you're supposed to put them in your ears!

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So the LCD3 Zebrawood showed back up tonight and I think I just bought a pair. Rob, you get the LCD5 and we'll compare and see if they're worth it, kay? 

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Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

WD 2TB Green internals, $99.99 shipped after promo code, which requires you are subscribed to the newegg newsletter. i picked up two for the new drobo.

All those WD's have problems doing RAID, thought you should know. WD wants you to buy their RAID certified drives for much more $$$ and they have turned off some functionality on their drives in this price range. Makes the RAID fall apart constantly.

I'm looking for (6) 2TB drives for an array and can't use any WD's. I don't want to pay over $200 per drive.

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Hitachi 2tb drives run well in raid, as do the Samsungs.

I've been using Caviar Greens in my older Mediasmart for a while now with no issues, but WHS is not a typical NAS....

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All those WD's have problems doing RAID, thought you should know. WD wants you to buy their RAID certified drives for much more $$$ and they have turned off some functionality on their drives in this price range. Makes the RAID fall apart constantly.

I'm looking for (6) 2TB drives for an array and can't use any WD's. I don't want to pay over $200 per drive.

i'm not really strong on the technical aspects of how the drobo do what it do, but a little light googling reveals they are an OK choice for a drobo. we'll see I guess.

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Damn that's a lot of porn. What RAID are you planning to run?

RAID 5 for the 12TB array , and a Dual 1 TB Mirror for Boot. I want my PORN fast and protected...

Yeah, I definitely would not do Caviar Green in anything other than a backup situation (I.E. not as a primary drive, nor as a anything in a Raid or NAS).

Caviar Blacks has the same issues unfortunately.

Hitachi 2tb drives run well in raid, as do the Samsungs.

I've been using Caviar Greens in my older Mediasmart for a while now with no issues, but WHS is not a typical NAS....

I've switched to Hitachi and Sammy's as well. The older Caviar drives didn't have this issue. This is WD wanting you to pay to do RAID. There are folks out there hacking the functionality back into the HD firmware to try and restore what WD ripped out.

i'm not really strong on the technical aspects of how the drobo do what it do, but a little light googling reveals they are an OK choice for a drobo. we'll see I guess.

Nothing wrong with the DROBO, just possibly the drive you linked to. I just wanted to warn you about issues with the WD drives doing RAID. Lots of folks found this out the Hard($$$) way.

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Nothing wrong with the DROBO, just possibly the drive you linked to. I just wanted to warn you about issues with the WD drives doing RAID. Lots of folks found this out the Hard($$$) way.

right on, I appreciate the warning. Drobo doesn't use RAID, though they don't really tell you how exactly it works.

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right on, I appreciate the warning. Drobo doesn't use RAID, though they don't really tell you how exactly it works.

I see, just read it's wiki page. Looks interesting. I remember looking at it some time back and it looked intriguing. There are certain calls that RAID makes to the HD firmware and if the WD doesn't do those, you'll be fine.

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I've switched to Hitachi and Sammy's as well. The older Caviar drives didn't have this issue. This is WD wanting you to pay to do RAID. There are folks out there hacking the functionality back into the HD firmware to try and restore what WD ripped out.

WHS doesn't use RAID, it's more of a file level mirroring that can be enabled so it works fine even with the newer drives (which make up half of the drives in it). I'm guessing you're referring to WD's decision to disable the TLER functionality? I thought that they completely disabled it on the newer drives and it wasn't accessible anymore?

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Anyone seen any deals on tv stands? I've been looking around but have been suffering some serious sticker shock issues, so much so that I'm tempted to just buy some wood and build a simple but sturdy stand myself. It also seems that most of them don't have space for a center channel speaker :(

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I went there yesterday, thought of picking up the Lack tv stand but decided against it as it wasn't moddable to fit a center channel. Sticker shock happened when I looked at anything that used real wood. Yikes.

I'll go and take a look again later this week, but at the couple hundred dollar price point I'm inclined to build my own, be it out of wood, 80/20, or a combination.

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