notebook drives for sage

[tvmaster2]

Is anyone using a notebook, or laptop 2.5" drive as a system drive to
cutdown on noise and heat? If so, serial or ata, and any
recommendations would be appreciated (especially regarding noise and size needed to do the job).

Is it best to just run the system software, or are people running things like photos and mp3 files from 2.5" drives in addition to apps (I would still use a larger 3.5" for Sage recordings).

cheers

[paulbeers]

I've used a 40GB notebook hard drive in one of my full clients. I have never tried it in a server. I would image it would be okay, but I am not sure if you will really notice a reduction in noise if you are also running full size hard drives with it.

[ukmgranger]

I used a 40gig laptop drive in a multimedia system for a while. The one thing that I would suggest is to be careful of the adapter. I had a VERY CHEAP laptop HDD to ATA converter. I think that this cused the laptop HDD to fail due to badly soldered connections. It did noticeably cut down on the noise though. it was just a pain when the system went down and I didn't have FULL system backups.

[stevech]

I have a notebook with an internal drive and two external USB2 drives. All are quiet. The internal 2.5 inch drive is setup with two partitions: a small one for booting Windows and a larger one formatted at 64K clusters as are the USB2 drives, for video. I don't know but suspect that the I/O speed of that 2.5 inch EIDE drive is as fast as or faster than the USB2 drives.

This all works OK, for simultaneous recording and viewing via the laptop's S-video out, and running one Sage PC client via an 11g, 22Mbps net speed WiFi connection to the home LAN from the laptop.

No HD though.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by ukmgranger

I used a 40gig laptop drive in a multimedia system for a while. The one thing that I would suggest is to be careful of the adapter. I had a VERY CHEAP laptop HDD to ATA converter. I think that this cused the laptop HDD to fail due to badly soldered connections. It did noticeably cut down on the noise though. it was just a pain when the system went down and I didn't have FULL system backups.

as an update to making a new system (old thread), has anyone had further success using 2.5" drives in Sage systems, either as the system drive or storage drives? My concern would be the constant data writing and 24 hour-on situation - are the little drives up to it in the long haul? My case is limited to two 3.5" drives.

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

as an update to making a new system (old thread), has anyone had further success using 2.5" drives in Sage systems, either as the system drive or storage drives? My concern would be the constant data writing and 24 hour-on situation - are the little drives up to it in the long haul? My case is limited to two 3.5" drives.

I am not sure what else you are looking for? It seems we all gave you our experiences. Several of us have used notebook hard drives as OS drives in clients. This would be the same as running a Sage Server/Full Sage install OS drive on a notebook hard drive, so yes it has been done and if you have to it would be fine. I use notebooks as Desktops at work and at home so their drives are just as good for daily use with no issues, BUT as you stated you are still going to 3.5" drives for Sage recordings so as I stated 4 months ago, I don't know how much quieter your system is going to be because the other 3.5" drives will still be loud.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by paulbeers

I am not sure what else you are looking for? It seems we all gave you our experiences. Several of us have used notebook hard drives as OS drives in clients. This would be the same as running a Sage Server/Full Sage install OS drive on a notebook hard drive, so yes it has been done and if you have to it would be fine. I use notebooks as Desktops at work and at home so their drives are just as good for daily use with no issues, BUT as you stated you are still going to 3.5" drives for Sage recordings so as I stated 4 months ago, I don't know how much quieter your system is going to be because the other 3.5" drives will still be loud.

thanks - I guess my counting is off - I see your last entry was 28 months ago, not four, at least in this thread. Drive technology can change quite a bit in 28 months, hence my asking for an update. I imagined someone else might have chimed in who hadn't before, but thanks again anyways.