On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:53:10AM +1000, Kevin wrote:
I would not give the red drives much consideration as they are mostly a marketing change over the blacks.
given that 3TB WD Black drives are about $70 more then 3TB WD RED, that would make the RED drives a bargain.
Based on reports from companies like backblaze I would consider hitachi deskstars if the budget permitted else go with seagate DM series
hitachi 4TB Deskstar 0S03358 is about $270 at the moment, much more expensive than the seagate ST4000DM000 at $195.
Anything advertised for enterprise purposes is really pointless.
true.
WD blacks or reds are also appropriate but avoid the greens (stupid idle timeout.)
i use WD Greens in my myth box. my main /export pool is made up of a mixture of WD Green 1TB and seagate ST31000528AS. i had to reflash my LSI-based SAS card to "IT" mode to avoid idle timeout problems, but since I did that they've been working flawlessly.
the static vdev sizing is truly one of the few annoying things about zfs
yep. it would be nice to do stuff like just add a fifth drive to a 4-drive raidz and have it rebalance all the data. but you can't do that (and zfs doesn't do rebalancing like btrfs either). craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #111: The salesman drove over the CPU board.