I have 2 available spot on my Unraid 4.7, and need more space..So I would like to add 2 x 2TB drives

I don't want to switch to a beta version to use 3TB drives. My current 4.7 server works very good, and 4TB additional will be plenty enough for a while

But looks like those drives are hard to find !!! Any good links for 2TB green drives?

But looks like those drives are hard to find !!! Any good links for 2TB green drives?

 

Come to the Philippines - most drives stocked on the shelf are still 500GB, with 1TB starting to creep in.  Anything bigger has to be a special order.

This what you're looking for?

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd20earx

there was a post out here for a sale amazon was having for wd green 2 tb.  $89

 

sale is over but.  Not sure where you are if amazon will ship to you

 

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-3-5-Inch-Internal-Desktop/dp/B00471EYUU/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1354026935&sr=1-5&keywords=western+digital+2+tb+green

Newegg.com shows 4 different 2T Green drives. However, how can anyone provide useful links since you didn't tell where you live.

Arghhh..............sorry about that 

I live in the USA (Detroit area, Michigan)

If you don't want to go mail order, Best Buy shows plenty of WD 2 TB Green drives at most of their stores in the Detroit area.  I don't think you'll have much trouble finding 2 TB drives, just maybe not every brick and mortar location will have them in stock.

Yeah, but it seems that the Green one (5,400 or 5,900 rpm) are hard to find nowadays 

You can always go red! 

you know ... yesterday i had one disk missing when i brought up the server ... i rebooted and everything was fine, haven't run parity yet, but it definitely looks like the disk is failing.

 

since it's 2tb x 20 unraid array ... i'm wondering how to proceed as far as the future goes. do i:

 

a) stock a couple 2tb for when the disks in the array start failing

b) upgrade to higher capacity disks right away (3tb o 4tb)

 

i'm considering waiting for 4tb becoming affordable and gradually convert my 2tb x 20 to a 4tb x 20 

Good question... I ended up buying a couple of 2 tb greens while they were on sale to keep as spares.  it hurts me physically that this capacity is not in use, but if i lose a drive in my array, i will be ready to replace.