As the subject states! Anyone have one in use yet? They're starting to show up in stores now (See Good Deals thread)

 

 

DB.

Greenleaf is testing one right now on all of our builds.

 

So far everything seems to be going well on our end and the drive is in good shape.  We have more testing to do yet, but once we are done we will be putting our findings up in a blog post.

Greenleaf is testing one right now on all of our builds.

 

So far everything seems to be going well on our end and the drive is in good shape.  We have more testing to do yet, but once we are done we will be putting our findings up in a blog post.

 

Excellent! Can't wait to see it! Assuming the news is good, they keep dropping in price, and assuming Hitachi keeps making them (Not sure what the deal is with the whole take over thing), these will be my go-to drive!

 

We just ordered 8 4tb drives at work to put into a 2u 8bay sccm deployment server for our xp to win7 migration.

 

They are going to be in raid 6 with a hot spare for 20tb of storage.

 

We never stopped to check if our raid card supported them. I'm sure we are fine.

 

 

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The news thus far:

 

The 4 TB Hitachi Green drive successfully completed one pass of preclear (~46 hours), a parity sync, and a parity check running unRAID 5.0 beta 14.  I am currently running a write test on it using TeraCopy.  While I don't see any data integrity issues, it is running a bit slow - ~9 Mb/s, instead of the normal 25 - 35 Mb/s.  The 4 TB is assigned as the parity drive, and the data drive in question is an old 7200 RPM 320 GB drive.  The slowness could very well be the fault of the old data drive, and have nothing to do with the 4 TB drive.  In future tests I'll use modern 2 TB drives as data drives and replicate these tests.  I'll publish all findings in a Greenleaf blog post once all my tests are complete.  At the moment, I can say with some confidence that preclear 1.13 and unRAID 5.0 beta 14 are both fully compatible with the 4 TB drive.