November 12, 20187 yr https://www.ebay.ca/itm/HGST-Ultrastar-7K4000-HUS724030ALE641-0F17731-3TB-64MB-Cache-7200-RPM-SATA-III/201694919367?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649 I just ordered 3 SMART results all great 2 years 2 months power on time 0 pending sectors 0 reallocated sectors 39 Power Cycle count Edited November 12, 20187 yr by mikefallen
November 13, 20187 yr Old slow and steady. That's what these drives are.Totally reliable but very slow. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite
May 3, 20197 yr On 11/13/2018 at 3:59 AM, tr0910 said: Old slow and steady. That's what these drives are. Totally reliable but very slow. Sent from my chisel, carved into granite What drive would you recommend that isn't slow in your opinion?
May 5, 20197 yr The sweet spot right now is the 8tb drives. Very affordable, and stable. I really wouldn't recommend buying smaller drives today. The WD and the Seagates both are working well. Note that the Seagates 8tb Archives are SMR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording) and the WD are PMR (non shingled). Exhaustive research here on the forum proved that SMR drives work good with unRaid. Many are using them. However if this worries you, grab the WD drives. The best price is found in external USB drives that need to be shucked from their plastic cases to install bare metal into unRaid servers. Note USB drives can be used with unRaid, as non-array storage, but the USB interface is not supported for array drives. Shucking is required and for that you save $50 - $100 per drive. These newer 8tb drives are about twice as fast as the 3tb Hitachi's. There are faster drives if you don't mind jumping to the 10tb, 12tb and 14tb size, but the increased speed is less than 20%. You will however be paying at least double the price for a small increase in capacity and speed for the newest and largest drives.
May 5, 20197 yr I won't buy anything smaller than 6TB these days, simply not worth it for me. I also won't buy refurbed drives, while you can get lucky and get a deal, they usually come with limited warranties and I'd rather spend the extra few $$ to get the two or three year warranty. When the 8TB Seagate externals are on sale for $179 CAD then they are a deal and I'll buy a bunch, but I haven't see that price in awhile now so I am waiting. I have 17 of the 8TB Seagate's deployed between three of my unRAID servers, no issues in over three years.
May 5, 20197 yr 9 hours ago, tr0910 said: The sweet spot right now is the 8tb drives. Very affordable, and stable. I really wouldn't recommend buying smaller drives today. The WD and the Seagates both are working well. Note that the Seagates 8tb Archives are SMR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording) and the WD are PMR (non shingled). Exhaustive research here on the forum proved that SMR drives work good with unRaid. Many are using them. However if this worries you, grab the WD drives. The best price is found in external USB drives that need to be shucked from their plastic cases to install bare metal into unRaid servers. Note USB drives can be used with unRaid, as non-array storage, but the USB interface is not supported for array drives. Shucking is required and for that you save $50 - $100 per drive. These newer 8tb drives are about twice as fast as the 3tb Hitachi's. There are faster drives if you don't mind jumping to the 10tb, 12tb and 14tb size, but the increased speed is less than 20%. You will however be paying at least double the price for a small increase in capacity and speed for the newest and largest drives. I thought external drives were like buying a prebuild pc at Wallmart, a bad deal compared to buying components. 50-100$ per drive is quite nice! Also if the higher capacity drives are actually faster then it's a no brainer, since you get more capacity per dollar with larger drives. Personally I just want to have somewhere to dumb raw video I use for youtube, so I don't really need that much storage yet. However in my use case large drives are perfect considering I just need to expand every now and then
May 5, 20197 yr 9 hours ago, ashman70 said: I won't buy anything smaller than 6TB these days, simply not worth it for me. I also won't buy refurbed drives, while you can get lucky and get a deal, they usually come with limited warranties and I'd rather spend the extra few $$ to get the two or three year warranty. When the 8TB Seagate externals are on sale for $179 CAD then they are a deal and I'll buy a bunch, but I haven't see that price in awhile now so I am waiting. I have 17 of the 8TB Seagate's deployed between three of my unRAID servers, no issues in over three years. That's 130'ish USD, there is no way that's a 8 TB high reliability drive, right? Personally I never had any drive fail on me, the most dramatic thing I have seen was my diablo 2 CD shatter inside my optical drive.
May 5, 20197 yr Drives will fail, it's not if, but when. I like to have at least one spare of a few different sizes on hand that I have already pre cleared ready to go just in case.
May 13, 20197 yr Nothing wrong with shucking drives, actually even companies like backblaze do it to save money. I'd rather be able to afford a spare drive because I saved money by shucking external usb drives.
September 10, 20196 yr I use 16 3TB HGST drives. Some HUS from 2013 and HUA from 2017. Very fast but hot. Cooling needed. No failures.
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