September 24, 20241 yr My server is in desperate need of expansion. I stumbled on ServerPartDeals and their prices seem to be the best I can find. I've done a little searching and they appear to be legit with plenty of positive testimonials. My tower currently has a 10tb parity disk. I have been slowly swapping old 2-4 tb drives with WD Red 8 tbs over the past 2 years, so I'm looking for 8tb ideally. I need help picking from the available recertified drives (listed below). There are 4 8tb drives. But I can't seem to find any specs or discussions of the Toshiba MD series. What are people's thoughts on the Barracuda or Archive series from Seagate? I normally see their IronWolf Pro line recommended. If the 12-14 drives are the only ones suggested over these (either the Ultrastar or the IronWolf), I will have to make it my new parity drive and move the current 10tb into the data array. Not sure I feel comfortable with a recert drive as parity, but will it matter if it undergoes a badblock/preclear stress test and passes (and has a 2 yr warranty with SPD)? 8tb = Toshiba MD05 or MD06 (both $80) 8tb = Seagate Barracuda or Archive series ($110 & $90 respectively) 12 tb = Ultrastar ($110) 12 tb = IronWol Pro ($130) 14 tb Ultrastar (512 cache) ($130)
September 24, 20241 yr Go with the largest you can afford, replace your cache parity drive, and then use the old cache parity drive to replace your smallest data drive. At $9.17/TB vs $9.29/TB, the Utrastar 12TB and 14TB, respectively, are the best options. For that small of a price difference, I will always pick the larger size. Unless I can get 2 of the smaller size... I usually set a hard budget when I go looking. Early on, when I was moving from 4-6-8TB drives to 14TB+ sizes, I sometimes opted to get 2x 12TB or 2x10TB because I could make a larger impact on my overall system (replacing 2 substantially smaller drives) for the $ I had in my budget at that time. Edited September 24, 20241 yr by whipdancer cache got stuck in my brain
September 24, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, whipdancer said: Go with the largest you can afford, replace your cache drive, and then use the old cache drive to replace your smallest data drive. Did you mean parity instead of cache?
September 24, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, JonathanM said: Did you mean parity instead of cache? Doh, yes. I'll fix it.
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