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Honestly im not looking to spend a crap load just looking for about 4 1 or 2 TB drives... I picked up a perc5 and im planning on running raid 5. Im thinking i need enterprise drives but im not sure..
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Working on a server...What hard drives should i go with?
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There was an article over on BackBlaze from the person(s) who runs the servers, and according to them the increased cost of "enterprise" drives were simply not worth the premium over consumer drives. Keeping in mind, they run 17,000+ hard drives.
I'll see if I can find it and post back with it.
I'll see if I can find it and post back with it.
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yeah i keep reading about the reds failing..
I was thinking about the western digital enterprise http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ern_digital_enterprise-_-22-236-525-_-Product
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I read quite a few reports on it, as well, and the common factor seemed to not be the drives themselves, but Newegg's horrible packaging. Western digital added an option during the RMA to find out what vendor you bought it from, it was getting so bad. I trust the drives enough that I'm running them in my server now.
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which hatachi?
I'm running hitachi blacks and seagates (don't recall model atm)
Whatever you do...avoid 'green' drives. Also don't bother with 1TB drives as you'll run out of bays real quick (unless you're running one of the awesome norco cases)...go 2TB minimum.
Whatever you do...avoid 'green' drives. Also don't bother with 1TB drives as you'll run out of bays real quick (unless you're running one of the awesome norco cases)...go 2TB minimum.
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Over on the freenas forum, there are people that run the greens with great results, but you just have to disable the intellipark feature with wdidle3.
But that won't matter if you're going to run hardware raid, you'd need a drive with TLER like already mentioned above.
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He is running hardware RAID, which has issues with the TLER feature and is not related to Intellipark at all. Software RAID generally does not have an issue with TLER, which is what FreeNAS is running.
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I'd go with Reds, personally.
My 4x2TB RAID5 of them has been flawless on a PERC 6/I.
Agreed on the issues being packaging and not the drives themselves.
Mine arrived in a "new" style of packaging, I wouldn't worry about that issue any more.
My 4x2TB RAID5 of them has been flawless on a PERC 6/I.
Agreed on the issues being packaging and not the drives themselves.
Mine arrived in a "new" style of packaging, I wouldn't worry about that issue any more.
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Im really considering the hatachis now...
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