Hi all,

 

How are Samsung drives doing recently? I'm particularly looking at the SAMSUNG EcoGreen F3 2TB. I'm wondering if anyone use them in their Unraid server.

 

Also what other 2TB drives that work great with Unraid?

 

Is the Seagate 7200.12 good?

Hi all,

 

How are Samsung drives doing recently? I'm particularly looking at the SAMSUNG EcoGreen F3 2TB. I'm wondering if anyone use them in their Unraid server.

 

Also what other 2TB drives that work great with Unraid?

 

Is the Seagate 7200.12 good?

 

Seagate:

The 7200.12 drives are good but they top out at 1TB I believe.  The XT's go to 2TB but are mostly overkill for unRAID.  I can't recommend the LP models yet.  The 7200.11 1.5TB are fine and have been for quite a while.

 

Not sure why this is in the motherboards forum?

I've used the following.

 

Seagate 1.5TB 7200 RPM's with great success. (0 out of 5 failures)

Seagate 1.5TB 5900 RPM's with great success. (0 out of 2 failures)

Seagate 1   TB 7200 RPM's with good success. (1 out of 5 failures)

WD        1TB 5400 RPM's EACS with adequate performance. (16MB cache) (1 out of 8 failures)

WD        1TB 5400 RPM's EADS with good performance. (32MB cache). 0 out of 2 failures.

WD        2TB 5400 RPM's EADS with good performance. 0 out of 2 failures.

 

 

I have not tried the samsung 2TB's yet, but some of the comments on newegg made me decide to wait a few batches.

I have also tried the Samsung F3 1TB 7200RPM drives. These are some of fastest drives in the outer tracks.

I was benching them at 150Mb/s reading 10Gb on the outer tracks (80Mb/write)

I set them up in a RAID0/RAID1 safe arrangement as a scratch pad on my workstation.

Just like to add, as with any harddrive purchase, if you plan on buying several.  Don't buy all of them from one place at the same time.  Increases your chances of getting several bad drives....

I have one of the Samsung HD203WI 2tb drives in my system, works fine.  My Parity drive is a Hitachi HDS72202 2tb,  also no issues.

For a parity drive I highly recommend the Hitachi 7200RPM 2TB drive. Works great.

I've just bought two to put in my unRAID server along with a WD 2TB. Eventually they'll go in the 2nd unRAID box. Should be here tomorrow. 

I am using the Hitachi 2TB 7600 rpm drives with no issues.  There are 4 active drives in the array, the parity drive and a "hot spare" that is not in the array.  The array has been on line for about two months now with no problems.

Parity re-generated at 60MB/s. With the new Samsung drive. Very happy, seems the approx same speed as my 7200RPM 1TB Samsung drives thus far. Will be able to confirm once I start writing more data to the array and reading data from the array.

 

Ran pre-clear first to check the drive and all good.