interwebtech Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 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 Link to comment
BLKMGK Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 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 Link to comment
interwebtech Posted November 28, 2015 Author Share Posted November 28, 2015 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). Link to comment
BLKMGK Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 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? Link to comment
madpoet Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Wondering the same about Parity... Normally I'd use the 7200RPM but there's nothing like that in 8TB obviously Link to comment
interwebtech Posted November 28, 2015 Author Share Posted November 28, 2015 See my sig HDD PARITY: 8TB (2x4TB HGST in RAID0) Link to comment
madpoet Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 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! Link to comment
interwebtech Posted November 28, 2015 Author Share Posted November 28, 2015 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. Link to comment
Superorb Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 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. Link to comment
tr0910 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 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. Link to comment
hernandito Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 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? Link to comment
madpoet Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 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! Link to comment
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