March 30, 201511 yr I am looking for a reliable 2.5" hard drive that I can use for a cache drive. I have read up an backblaze and see that HGST 3.5" drives are the most reliable but I am not sure if the same holds true for their 2.5" drives. What 1TB or greater drive would you guys recommend? I am not interested in paying extra for a enterprise level drive. The reason I need a 2.5" instead of a 3.5" is that I only have a 2.5" drive bay left in my case. My plan is to use this drive as my data store for my ESXi host and have about half of it as a dedicated virtual cache drive for unraid. This way I can free up a 3.5" drive bay and sata port on my LSI card so I can add another 6TB drive to my array. I have only 8 sata ports on my LSI card and 8 3.5" drive bays.
March 30, 201511 yr Author http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147374 I am specifically looking for a HDD and not a SSD for cost reasons and the majority of my the usage will be unraid.
March 30, 201511 yr I have a Seagate 1TB hybrid SSHD for sale on craigslist (pulled from my new laptop). Shoot me a pm for a link if you're interested.
April 2, 201511 yr Newegg has WD Black 7200 rpm 750 GB 2.5" on sale for $55 with promo code right now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236561
April 2, 201511 yr I'm pretty partial to the 750 Seagate Hybrid drives. I usually get them off eBay. 7200 RPM with 8GB SSD Cache.
April 3, 201511 yr I'm pretty partial to the 750 Seagate Hybrid drives. I usually get them off eBay. 7200 RPM with 8GB SSD Cache. I been looking at this drive as well. Reviews about the drive's reliability are all over the place though.
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