October 7, 201114 yr Not a bad deal for a 5900RPM drive with 64MB cache. http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-SV35-5-ST2000VX002-internal-SATA-600/dp/B004HBAGV6?SubscriptionId=1ZY3HFT8TRE2E1CESW82&tag=diskcompare-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B004HBAGV6
October 7, 201114 yr Not a great deal either. The sale price for 2 TB drives has been as low as $60. The extra speed from this drive is pretty negligible compared to 5400 RPM drives.
October 8, 201114 yr Author This is an Enterprise level drive specifically designed to run 24/7 and take a beating. The MTBF is over 1,000,000 hours. The SV35 drives are work horses and if I had the money I would build a new server with all these drives installed. Yea, $96 isn't the best price but for a 5 year warranty and a low failure rate is pretty good maybe for a parity drive? I have one hooked up to my cable box as supplement space for my DVR and it has been running for several years 24/7. Maybe they will go on sale!
October 10, 201114 yr Part of the beauty of unRAID is that it doesn't 'beat up' drives like other RAID systems. In my opinion it would be a waste to spend extra on an enterprise level drive when consumer level drives hold up just as well.
October 10, 201114 yr It might be a good candidate for parity or cache drive if all the other drives were in a similar class of service. I.E. 5900 rpm. The extra cache could help offset the spindle speed and read/rewrite of parity blocks. I would only spend this much on a data drive if it was my picture or music file storage drive. I.E. A drive with allot of little files. However I think a 7200RPM works best with a filesystem with many small files, this is a good candidate when you have 2TB of music on one filesystem.
October 24, 201114 yr Author I should have bought a couple of these while I could have. Not available now. DARN!
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