July 28, 201114 yr HITACHI Deskstar 0S03230 3TB 5400 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive $119 after promo EMCKCHB23 (expires 08/03/2011) $109 after $10 MIR Great drives. I'm currently burning in 15 of these, haven't seen a dud yet. Initial results here.
July 28, 201114 yr I just don't know what to do. I want to pick up more drives for my primary server (see sig) and I'm very tempted to go with these 3TB ones. I'm just not sure I want to put it on a "beta" version of the software. I have been running my secondary server on the beta versions for months without issues and my gut tells me it's very unlikely I'd have problems but still... I just don't know. I'd hate to fill the case with 2TB drives and no hope of expansion (except replacing 2TB drives). What to do? Does anyone have experience using a similar setup with 3TB drives.
July 28, 201114 yr Author Why not buy a couple of 3 TB drives and use them on your test server for a while? Once both they and the beta software prove themselves trustworthy on that server, then migrate them over to your production server. Or maybe by that time a 5.0 stable will be out...fingers crossed.
July 28, 201114 yr Presumably you can use these with the current version of unRAID only realizing a capacity of 2TB?
July 28, 201114 yr Author Yes, even up to 2.2 TB. You will have to short stroke the drive in order for this to work. However, the latest beta (5.0 beta 10) is stable enough that you can use it on a production server if you want to, just be sure to know what you are doing, and don't panic if something goes wrong.
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