JorgeB Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 30 minutes ago, tucansam said: What is turbo write? Quote Link to comment
tucansam Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 That just took me to peaks of 73MB/s. You, sir, deserve a beer. Quote Link to comment
c3 Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Similar experience with 5TB years ago. Not sure unRAID will ever use the f2fs, but once the kernel upgrades (4.10 and beyond), using the dm-zoned device will mitigate this further. Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 I migrated 16 TB of data, movies with plenty of metadata files and background artwork etc, from 4TB 7200RPM HGST drives to 2 Seagate Archive Data drives with a 8TB Seagate Archive Parity drive without any slowdowns at all. I let unbalance run in the background and from what I remember I never saw any speeds under 75 MB/s. Quote Link to comment
Harro Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 (edited) I just received two more of the Seagate 8TB external expansion drives and they no longer have the archive drives in them but a Barracuda ST8000DM004 model. If my google is correct it would be this model. ST8000DM004 . And that is a great bargain for the external drive at 179. Edited August 29, 2017 by Harro 1 Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 There have been many discussions about this, the general consensus is that they are still shingled drives, the say COMPUTE on them don't they? They are not the same as the M004 models that cost much more. 1 Quote Link to comment
Harro Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 3 minutes ago, ashman70 said: There have been many discussions about this, the general consensus is that they are still shingled drives, the say COMPUTE on them don't they? They are not the same as the M004 models that cost much more. Yes it has "compute" listed under the Barracuda name. I was getting excited. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 On 8/29/2017 at 3:15 PM, Harro said: I just received two more of the Seagate 8TB external expansion drives and they no longer have the archive drives in them but a Barracuda ST8000DM004 model. If my google is correct it would be this model. ST8000DM004 . And that is a great bargain for the external drive at 179. @Harro Wondering if you had any issues using these drives in unraid? Any partitions that had to be removed or that sort of thing. Just purchased an ST8000AS0002 on eBay but got the DM004 instead. Trying to figure out if I should just demand a full refund and return the drive or except a partial credit and keep the drive. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 According to Seagate those disks are not SMR, they are TGMR, they are also 2TB per platter vs 1.33TB per platter for the shingled ones, so they should be superior in every aspect. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 1 minute ago, johnnie.black said: According to Seagate those disks are not SMR, they are TGMR, they are also 2TB per platter vs 1.33TB per platter for the shingled ones, so they should be superior in every aspect. So, would you keep and use these considering the fact that there won't be any warranty? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 4 minutes ago, wgstarks said: So, would you keep and use these considering the fact that there won't be any warranty? On further reading, looks like TGMR can still be SMR , so probably shingled the same but with bigger platters, still better, wont comment on the warranty, you need to decide about that yourself. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 1 minute ago, johnnie.black said: On further reading, looks like TGMR can still be SMR , so probably shingled the same but with bigger platters, still better, wont comment on the warranty, you need to decide about that yourself. Just irritates me that the seller listed it as AS0002 and even included several pics. The drives don't look anything alike. I have a hard time believing they accidentally listed/shipped the wrong one. What about issues with partitions that need to be removed? Seems like I've seen some posts regarding drives that couldn't access the full capacity. Quote Link to comment
Harro Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 59 minutes ago, wgstarks said: Wondering if you had any issues using these drives in unraid? Any partitions that had to be removed or that sort of thing. Just purchased an ST8000AS0002 on eBay but got the DM004 instead. Trying to figure out if I should just demand a full refund and return the drive or except a partial credit and keep the drive. Well I ordered 2 more today since the price went down another 10 dollars. Didn't have any problems during pre-clear and mounted ok. Guess time will tell. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 46 minutes ago, Harro said: Well I ordered 2 more today since the price went down another 10 dollars. Didn't have any problems during pre-clear and mounted ok. Guess time will tell. Mind posting a link? Quote Link to comment
Harro Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Seagate Expansion 8TB USB 3.0 sorry sale ends today 2 hours ago, wgstarks said: Mind posting a link? Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 34 minutes ago, Harro said: Seagate Expansion 8TB USB 3.0 sorry sale ends today That's ok. Looks like the backup plus goes on sale tomorrow for the same price. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 I'd really like if someone with one of these new 8TB Seagates would post a disk speed graph to see how it compares to the old 8TB Archives. 1 Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Id be glad to post it but I'm not sure how you generated the graph? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 4 minutes ago, wgstarks said: Id be glad to post it but I'm not sure how you generated the graph? Go to apps and search for disk speed. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Thanks. I'll run it as soon as my data rebuild finishes. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 On 9/1/2017 at 4:04 AM, johnnie.black said: I'd really like if someone with one of these new 8TB Seagates would post a disk speed graph to see how it compares to the old 8TB Archives. I almost forgot about this. Seagate ST8000DM004 shucked from a Seagate Expansion Unit. 8 test points 3 iterations. 1 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 5 minutes ago, wgstarks said: Seagate ST8000DM004 shucked from a Seagate Expansion Unit. 8 test points 3 iterations. That's disappointing, was expecting it to be significant faster than the old one, since it has 4 platters instead of 6. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Looks like it might be just a little slower. At 0 and 8T for sure. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 2 minutes ago, wgstarks said: Looks like it might be just a little slower. At 0 and 8T for sure. Yeah, but it should be noticeably faster, not similar, that together with the WLR dropping from 180TB to 55TB/year makes me think the older models are superior, hell, if a user does a parity check a month just that is enough to go well above the recommended 55TB/year. Quote Link to comment
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