Blade Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 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 Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 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. Link to comment
Blade Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 I read about problems people had with the Seagate 1.5TB drive. Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 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 Link to comment
PhilH Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 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. :'( Link to comment
BRiT Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 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. Link to comment
Blade Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 I ended up buying this one for my parity: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337 Link to comment
PhilH Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 I think you'll be happy with that... Let us know how it goes when you get it... Link to comment
Blade Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 New parity installed and built with no issues. Looks to be a little faster as well. I am happy Link to comment
PhilH Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Glad to hear it. Thanks for letting us know.. Link to comment
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