Currently I am using a WD 1TB green 5400RPM drive as my parity and am looking to upgrade the parity drive to this one:

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136313

 

Would this one work ok as a parity drive?

I would appreciate some feedback.

Thx

Why this one vs a Seagate 1.5tb 7200 RPM 32MB cache drive?

The Seagate gets up to 125MB/s on the outer tracks.

 

This one will work, Just curious.

 

 

I read about problems people had with the Seagate 1.5TB drive.

 

I read about problems people had with the Seagate 1.5TB drive.

 

Good enuff..

 

Here is an interesting article comparing the two.

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Seagate-Barracuda-1.5-TB,2032.html

I would personally go for the Seagate 1.5 TB drive.. I had one go out recently & did a advance RMA on it & had it in my hands in 24 hours after placing the RMA..

 

On the other hand I had a 500gig WD that made a mess out of my server. I placed a advance RMA on September 19th & they still haven't shipped a replacement. On top of that they placed a hold on my credit card for 220.00 dollars to boot. Terrible customer service.  :'(

I'm finding the 2TB WD Green drives to be slightly faster than the 1TB WD Green drives. Here's some real world numbers from my experience. I have 3 2TB WD Green drives in the array. The drive, /mnt/disk1, has 1.3TB of data already on it. In the latest file copy performed, 4909606966 bytes were copied in 300.925 seconds. That worked out to 15.559 MB/s. That's not too shabby considering they're Green drives. Earlier file copies when the drives were on the outer tracks were higher.

I ended up buying this one for my parity:

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337

 

I think you'll be happy with that... Let us know how it goes when you get it... 

New parity installed and built with no issues.

Looks to be a little faster as well. I am happy

Glad to hear it. Thanks for letting us know..