December 19, 20169 yr There was a thread in beginning of the year when they were announced. Both drives are PMR, and seem to have decent specs & benchmarks in terms of performance (256MB cache) & power usage. The ST8000DM002 is a Desktop-aimed drive, simply called "Desktop HDD" and the ST8000VN0002 is SOHO/SMB NAS-aimed, simply called "NAS HDD" (unclear how it differs from the ST8000VN0022 IronWolf). They're both currently significantly cheaper than the comparable WD Red. Only widespread issue I found reported so far is a buzzy noise at idle, for both; for the ST8000VN0002, a firmware update solved it for some users. Anybody have experience with either in an UnRAID array? In particular, anybody encountered the noise issue? I'm considering them for a server that'll live right next to my desk.
December 19, 20169 yr I have both of these models in my array: ST8000AS0002 x3 ST8000VX0002 x2 I have two for parity, one of each model, and the others in the array as data drives. I have no issues with them whatsoever.
December 19, 20169 yr I should qualify that though by saying I did have issues when I tried using them on my Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1280/1280ML 24-Port PCI-Express to SATA II RAID Controller, they did not play well and performed so slow I had to take them off and put them on either regular motherboard SATA ports or a SATA controller card. My Areca is configured for JBOD, but I guess there is some kind of conflict, they work fine as long as they are not on that card.
December 19, 20169 yr Author I should qualify that though by saying I did have issues when I tried using them on my Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1280/1280ML 24-Port PCI-Express to SATA II RAID Controller, they did not play well and performed so slow I had to take them off and put them on either regular motherboard SATA ports or a SATA controller card. My Areca is configured for JBOD, but I guess there is some kind of conflict, they work fine as long as they are not on that card. It looks like the Seagate drives are on the 1st system listed in your .sig (the ASUS P8Z68V-Pro one), so connected either to the motherboard or Supermicro HBA ports? I'm planning using an Asus Xeon motherboard, and either a LSI-2008 or the same Supermicro HBA you list, so I expect that should work.
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