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It's $149.99 on the Canada side but you can price beat it with Memory Express (184.99) and get it for CAD $142.49.

After the backblaze review of drives I'm scared of buying Seagate

 

http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

If you take their results as gospel:

We are focusing on 4TB drives for new pods. For these, our current favorite is the Seagate Desktop HDD.15 (ST4000DM000).

... the exact drive listed above.

 

But their methodology is suspect.  There is good data there, but they have more work to do before it is analytically robust.

If you take their results as gospel:

We are focusing on 4TB drives for new pods. For these, our current favorite is the Seagate Desktop HDD.15 (ST4000DM000).

... the exact drive listed above.

 

But their methodology is suspect.  There is good data there, but they have more work to do before it is analytically robust.

 

Agreed that they have a lot more work to do with there analytics.

 

I saw that line, but it still doesn't instill lot's of trust from me. I've had more Seagate failures than I'd care for (person experience)

 

With that aside, how is a 5900RPM drive as a parity? Assuming there are 7200RPM drives in the array? I really wish the Fry's by me had the Hitachi drives in stock.

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With that aside, how is a 5900RPM drive as a parity? Assuming there are 7200RPM drives in the array? I really wish the Fry's by me had the Hitachi drives in stock.

 

 

I use one of these as my parity disk. During the preclear it got one of the fastest read and write speeds of any spinning disk I've ever seen and since it was during a preclear this is sustained reads and writes. I wouldn't worry about using one as your parity. I went from a 3TB 7200 RPM to this as the parity disk and my performance improved.

If you take their results as gospel:

We are focusing on 4TB drives for new pods. For these, our current favorite is the Seagate Desktop HDD.15 (ST4000DM000).

... the exact drive listed above.

 

But their methodology is suspect.  There is good data there, but they have more work to do before it is analytically robust.

 

That is based mostly on price. I don't how they can say that they prefer and recommend Seagate drives and then proceed to show how they have a higher failure rate than the other brands they use.

Because the failed Seagates were not the same drives they are not focusing on.  But you're also right that they are doing a full cost analysis using cheaper drives to make up for the potential higher failure rates.