November 28, 201510 yr Seagate Archive HDD v2 ST8000AS0002 8TB 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive $299.99 Your Price: $219.99 With Promo Code: ESCKKNW28 Deals expire at 11:59PM PT on Sunday, 11/29/2015 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178748
November 28, 201510 yr Are these shingled drives? They're "archive" so I think they are which means they're probably pretty slow. Amazon has them for $233 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XS423SC/?tag=extension-kb-20 and NextWarehouse - which I've never heard of - has them even cheaper! http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?1657269_g10e
November 28, 201510 yr Author Yes these are SMR drives. The "Archive" notation is how they usually label them. That said I have one as data drive and its no slower than any other drive for writes of 8GB or so (my usual use case).
November 28, 201510 yr What are you using for parity? Reviews on NewEgg are mixed but overall seem to say that the drive works fine. I'm worried that for parity it might be slow but am intrigued for sure! I'm clearing a 5TB normal drive now for parity but for the size these seem a pretty good deal if they work well. I'm using a cache drive so write speed might not be too big a deal however parity checks could really drag out?
November 28, 201510 yr Wondering the same about Parity... Normally I'd use the 7200RPM but there's nothing like that in 8TB obviously
November 28, 201510 yr Ahhh ok. I'll be honest I haven't built an unRaid in a few years (it just keeps on cooking at v4!) so is configuring a RAID0 parity something that can be done now in unRaid itself or do you do it in hardware and then present it? Thanks!
November 28, 201510 yr Author Ahhh ok. I'll be honest I haven't built an unRaid in a few years (it just keeps on cooking at v4!) so is configuring a RAID0 parity something that can be done now in unRaid itself or do you do it in hardware and then present it? Thanks! Hardware. Using the Areca ARC-1231ML to create the volume across two ports and the rest of the ports as JBOD.
November 29, 201510 yr A little cheaper if you can use one of the $20 off $200 offers floating around. Amex and I think Visa Checkout is also doing it.
November 29, 201510 yr See my sig HDD PARITY: 8TB (2x4TB HGST in RAID0) Or 4x2tb. We have a lot of those from the old days that we don't want to throw out.
November 29, 201510 yr I have read about these guys with the cache stuff to speed up "normal" everyday writes. How would they work if I were to swap out my current 4TB parity drive with one of these, and then have to rebuild parity?
November 29, 201510 yr Ordered 5 to go with 2 of the 4gb HGST and a 500GB SSD Cache drive to go in a Silverstone DS380B. Still have room for 1 more 8TB. That will put me at 48TB, more than what I have in my current Norco 4224 fully populated with 2TB drives The Norco can become a backup/offload server I guess. It's ticked along for so many years I feel bad putting her out to pasture!
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