Hi,

 

I am newbie to unRaid and just started purchasing components for my unRaid build. So for have got the following components,

 

- Asus P8B75-M LE Mobo

- Intel i3 2100T CPU

- Corsair CX500 builder series

- Antec 902 V3 mid tower case

- G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) PC RAM (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL) (Had it already)

 

Thanks to all the folks in this forum I was able to select all hardware going through the forum so for. But Hard drive has stumped me completely. I can see there is no clear winner by going through the post.

 

I live in India and my options are limited, I would love to get WD Red but its not available at this time here in India. Hitachi  5K3000 is also not available.

 

So can you please suggest some good HDD based on your experience, I am planning to run unRaid 5 and if there is a good 3TB drive would like to use it for parity. But reliability is more in 2TB would stick with it...Enterprise HDDs are very expensive and I am worried about WD green drives due to their LLC problem...

 

Please let me know and thanks in advance.

 

 

You can get around the WD LLC issue by running wdidle (available from WD) and adjusting the timeout from 8 seconds to 300 seconds.  I have 3 2TB WD green drives in my array, and have no issues with them.

Thanks, is there any other good alternate for WD drives....?

You can get around the WD LLC issue by running wdidle (available from WD) and adjusting the timeout from 8 seconds to 300 seconds.  I have 3 2TB WD green drives in my array, and have no issues with them.

How do you run the wdidle apps from WD? Do you have to install the HD into a "regular" PC? I guess it can not be done into Unraid.....

I did it on another motherboard from a (DOS) bootable USB key.

I did it on another motherboard from a (DOS) bootable USB key.

OK...

Anyway, I just ordered a 2TB WD EARX drive at Newegg, and it seems that this model doesn't need to be "updated" with wdidle. I've seen that in another post on that forum

Hi anyone, can you please let me know a good alternate for WD? reviews in newegg and other places are scaring me....any good alternates?

You have the consumer Seagate, WD or Toshiba (was Hitachi) drives. Beyond that, the WD Red or the various much more expensive enterprise drives (such as WD RE4). That's all that's available. You posted no Red or Hitachi so that leaves Seagate or WD Green as the only cheap ones left. You now don't want WD Green so Seagate it is.

Thank you , ok then it has to be WD Green or Seagate !!!!