August 25, 201114 yr I have just built a new UnRaid server running 5.0beta9. I have 3TB Hitachi 5400RPM CoolSpin drives for parity and a couple of data drives. The WD 3TB drives are a lot cheaper and easier to source here in the UK - I recently bought one and have precleared it, but I am hesitant to add it to my array as I have heard there may be problems with these drives. Has anyone done any testing of WD 3TB drives with UnRaid? Are they ok to use?
August 25, 201114 yr I have just built a new UnRaid server running 5.0beta9. I have 3TB Hitachi 5400RPM CoolSpin drives for parity and a couple of data drives. The WD 3TB drives are a lot cheaper and easier to source here in the UK - I recently bought one and have precleared it, but I am hesitant to add it to my array as I have heard there may be problems with these drives. Has anyone done any testing of WD 3TB drives with UnRaid? Are they ok to use? People here are pretty fond of Hitachi drives. Only one user has tried a WD 3T drive, and he had trouble. But one person with one drive is not very much evidence. It could have been a problem with his setup, or a bad drive, or a bad cable, etc. Would be very helpful to the community here if others would try out the WD offerings and report back with results.
August 26, 201114 yr I have just built a new UnRaid server running 5.0beta9. I have 3TB Hitachi 5400RPM CoolSpin drives for parity and a couple of data drives. The WD 3TB drives are a lot cheaper and easier to source here in the UK - I recently bought one and have precleared it, but I am hesitant to add it to my array as I have heard there may be problems with these drives. Has anyone done any testing of WD 3TB drives with UnRaid? Are they ok to use? Building new server with 3TB drives on a unRAID beta? I wouldn't take such chance. I'm waiting patiently for a new stable release so I can eventually upgrade to finally get 3TB support. I believe 3TB support should have been ready in a stable version months ago. I have to grow very soon. If unRAID doesn't come out with stable release with 3TB support I may have to look at alternatives and I don't want to.
August 26, 201114 yr The WD 3TB drives are a lot cheaper and easier to source here in the UK For some reason, the 3TB Hitachi Green drives are not available bare in the UK. It's still cheaper to buy a 3TB Hitachi Green USB drive and pull it open for the drive than to buy a WD 3TB drive. I'm waiting for Hitachi to put out the Green drive on its own.
September 3, 201114 yr Also in the uk myself, upgraded parity to wd 3tb , been running for about a week (though not much saving/reading from the drive tbh) running beta 12. Will be adding another 3tb drive as data in the next few weeks then will be able to test fully.
September 5, 201114 yr i am currently pleclearing a WD 3TB that i got in from Newegg. ================================================================== 1.13 = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdd = cycle 1 of 1, partition start on sector 1 = Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed DONE = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Verifying if the MBR is cleared. DONE = Disk Post-Clear-Read completed DONE Disk Temperature: 31C, Elapsed Time: 37:10:19 ========================================================================1.13 == WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 WD-WCAWZ0974005 == Disk /dev/sdd has been successfully precleared == with a starting sector of 1 ============================================================================ ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdd /tmp/smart_finish_sdd ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VALUE Temperature_Celsius = 121 122 0 ok 31 No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. 0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. according to the MyMain Plugin i get the following Preclear Successfull ... Total Time 37:10:19 ... Pre-Read time 9:36:53 (86 MB/s) ... Zeroing time 8:33:48 (97 MB/s) ... Post-Read time 18:58:38 (43 MB/s) here is my system for reference Norco 4020 Case Supermicro MBD-X7SBE motherboard Intel E3200 2.4Ghz 4GB DDR2 800 (2) Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 PCI-X133Mhz controller cards from what i can tell everything is working the way it is supposed to work.
September 6, 201114 yr Building new server with 3TB drives on a unRAID beta? I wouldn't take such chance. I'm waiting patiently for a new stable release so I can eventually upgrade to finally get 3TB support. I believe 3TB support should have been ready in a stable version months ago. I have to grow very soon. If unRAID doesn't come out with stable release with 3TB support I may have to look at alternatives and I don't want to. I just built a new server using unRAID 5.0B12a and 9 - 3TB drives. So far it is working great, and there is no problem with it supporting those new larger drives. I am currently moving 16TB of video files over to the new build. I will of course be keeping my old server for a while as a fall back just in case I run into trouble. But I do not see that happening.
September 9, 201213 yr I'm looking to buy 3 of the following: http://www.ebuyer.com/260668-wd-3tb-green-desktop-drive-wd30ezrx Anyone recommend against them or suggest a better alternative? I'm based in the UK
September 10, 201213 yr I'm looking to buy 3 of the following: http://www.ebuyer.com/260668-wd-3tb-green-desktop-drive-wd30ezrx Anyone recommend against them or suggest a better alternative? I'm based in the UK No problems with my 3TB WD in use for almost a year. Hitachi drives are going to start disappearing soon. WD bought them 8 months or so ago.
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