September 4, 201312 yr Has anyone used laptop hard drives in their array? I recently purchased this hard drive cage: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817986007. I installed three of the four drives (all the same drives, WD Black WD32500BEKT: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136279) and they precleared successfully with no errors. I fired up the array with the three new disks (connected via a Promise Sata300TX PCI card) and wrote a bunch of data. However, my first parity check ended up with approximately 6500 errors. I thought it might be an issue with the drive cage, so I removed the cage and connected the disks directly to the card (just left them sitting on the floor). Another parity check, and it was more like 8000 errors. I removed the disks, rebuilt parity, ran another check: 0 errors. Has anybody experienced anything similar? Possibly some issue related to the drive cage, or does unraid not play well with 2.5" drives? I would think the former rather than the latter, as I've read about some folks using SSD's as their cache drive. Any advice is appreciated.
September 4, 201312 yr I have an array of 24, 2.5" Scorpio blacks. It isn't on unraid, but I haven't had any issues with it. I am running linux with zfs.
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