QUOTE(paultantk @ Jan 27 2012, 05:20 PM)
hard drives are so expensive now SIGH. wallet really bleed when i filled up my 5-bay synology with 3tb drives last month. i have switched from wd black to wd green now.
Sorry a little off topic but I've always been against Synology prices. You pay a premium for what something that you can DIY or get at a fraction of the cost.
What MB/s throughput are you getting from those drives?
Anyway, during the long holidays, I dusted and resurrected out my old Q6600 workhorse desktop with 3 x 750GB Samsung F1 hardisk which has not been used for 2 years.
Anyway, did a quick bench on the RAID 0 150GB partition from the 3 drives.
Not too shabby in the midst of SSD drives and furthermore with my mobo still on SATA 2.