scubieman Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 I bought a r710 with 8 2.5" drives. Right now I can get a 2tb 2.5" Seagate for 80 bucks. But it's a laptop hard drive. If I want Enterprise I will look to spend way more money for same thing. I dont use my server hard like business does. My cache drives are Enterprise however. Do you recommend using laptop drives, man up and buy Enterprise or buy Enterprise 3.5" and use a ribbon extender for them? Similiar to picture below. I figure if laptop drives fail as long as I have a parity it's not a big deal I just replace ASAP. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
whipdancer Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 i use a couple of laptop drives in my system and have had no issues since i put them in (about 8 - 10 months now). Quote Link to comment
scubieman Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 That's good to hear. I have Plex and a VM running but have 2 cache drives i use a couple of laptop drives in my system and have had no issues since i put them in (about 8 - 10 months now).Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 1 hour ago, scubieman said: I figure if laptop drives fail as long as I have a parity it's not a big deal I just replace ASAP Be careful with that attitude towards drive failure. As long as you are confident that all your drives are healthy, great. As soon as you don't like the way a drive looks at you, examine it thoroughly, and replace it if it smells funny. I'm being a smart ass on purpose, because I personally have lost data because I figured, hey, I've got parity, who cares if a drive fails, I'll replace it. It worked great until one of the drives I DIDN'T suspect was bad failed outright, and one of the drives I was watching to see if it failed kicked up errors while rebuilding the failed drive and corrupted the rebuild. Bottom line, parity isn't a magic bullet for drive failure. ALL remaining drives must perform perfectly to rebuild a failed drive, not just the parity drive. Quote Link to comment
scubieman Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Thank you for your post. What kind of drives messed you over? Laptop? Nasty? Enterprise?Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 22 minutes ago, scubieman said: Thank you for your post. What kind of drives messed you over? Laptop? Nasty? Enterprise? That incident was 10 years ago, and the drives in question were Maxtor 300GB PATA drives IIRC. They were old when I started using them with unraid. 1 Quote Link to comment
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