Today's Newegg shell shocker starting at 1:00pm.

So, with the short time line on a reasonably good deal on the Seagate 2TB drives...

 

Is anyone using the 2TB Seagate with unRAID happily or not so happily?  All I have read are the reports on the issues with the 1.5GB Seagates.

 

Thanks,

Mark

So, with the short time line on a reasonably good deal on the Seagate 2TB drives...

 

Is anyone using the 2TB Seagate with unRAID happily or not so happily?  All I have read are the reports on the issues with the 1.5GB Seagates.

 

Thanks,

Mark

 

Well I have 4 of the 1.5TB's in my unRAID server with 2 more on order and I put 6 of them in my son's unRAID server. All had Joe L's pre-clear run on them and have been in our arrays from 2 to 8 months w/o incident (knock on wood). My son's unRAID server was damaged on his flight from Alabama to Maine as all the drives came dislodged and his case bent badly. He bent his case back, put the drives in, ran a parity check and everything worked; no problems. This was  3 months ago. He has added several TB's of data since.

 

For all the bad pub the Seagate's have gotten, the only drive I had fail on me was a Samsung F1 750G drive (and I still have 4 of those in my server) yet the Seagate's have been rock solid for both of us.

Is anyone using the 2TB Seagate with unRAID happily or not so happily?  All I have read are the reports on the issues with the 1.5GB Seagates.

 

Actually, I just added this model Seagate 2TB drive to my unRAID array this past Friday, effectively replacing two Seagate 750TB drives which are going into a ESXi box I have.

 

It's only been a few days, but here's my observations:

1. It's exactly the same size as the WD20EADS drives I have already in the box (3,907,029,168 guaranteed sectors * 512 bytes/sector).  I'm not sure why that was such a shocker to me, but it was. 

2. The drive runs cooler than the WD20EADS drives... it's reporting 32C whereas the WD drives are reporting 42C, though even 42C is cooler than the 45-48C that my 1.5TB Seagates would report under the same conditions.

 

I was one of those who had issues with the 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11s... they would require random "link hard resets" in unRAID.  After upgrading firmware, I tried replacing cables (including using cables included in Seagate retail kits), controllers, and even motherboards, but they still had random issues which caused momentary freezes about once a day when placed under continual use (e.g. file sharing sources or non-stop video playback).  They have been working fine for me under Windows... well, not counting a hardware failure of one drive that I had this past Thursday.

 

Overall, pretty happy with the Seagate drive. I might have otherwise bought a WD had that one been cheaper and from the temperature readings I'm glad I ended up with the Seagate.

 

 

2. The drive runs cooler than the WD20EADS drives... it's reporting 32C whereas the WD drives are reporting 42C, though even 42C is cooler than the 45-48C that my 1.5TB Seagates would report under the same conditions.

 

That's strange, my 2 WD20EADS drives are only getting 34C on average during a parity check.  The WD20EADS is usually 3C more then my WD 1TB version. I also thought WD is cooler then Seagates, I guess I was wrong.

 

thanks,

~joy

 

2. The drive runs cooler than the WD20EADS drives... it's reporting 32C whereas the WD drives are reporting 42C, though even 42C is cooler than the 45-48C that my 1.5TB Seagates would report under the same conditions.

 

That's strange, my 2 WD20EADS drives are only getting 34C on average during a parity check.  The WD20EADS is usually 3C more then my WD 1TB version. I also thought WD is cooler then Seagates, I guess I was wrong.

 

thanks,

~joy

 

Actually, it did seem peculiar to me... so I just did some rearranging in my case and the WD20EADS in my Chenbro 5-in-3 is now running at 34C, vs 40-41C for the WD20EADS drives in the drive bays of my CoolerMaster 590 case (I pulled a Seagate 750GB drive that was running around 42C in exactly the same bay the cooler WD20EADS is now in).  The 2TB Seagate is still running a little cooler - 32C on the left most bay.  These are idle temperatures (well, relatively idle... there's some minor activity related to file sharing).

 

Under parity check, though, the WD20EADS does get above 40C, but the Seagate only gets around 35C.

 

My room ambient temperature is 78F (25.6C); high temps have been in the upper 100's the past several days.  My electric bill (mostly just for A/C) was well past $300 last month.