Which consumer-priced 1.5TB drives do people currently recommend? I had zero read/write/checksum errors so far in 2 years with my trusty old Western Digital WD7500AAKS drives, but now I want to upgrade to a new set of drives that are big, reliable and cheap.
As of Jan 2010 it seems the price sweet spot is the 1.5TB drives. As I had a lot of success with Western Digital drives I thought I would stick with WD. However, this time I might have to avoid Western Digital (see below), so I wondered which other recent drives people have found to be decent drives. WD15EADS: The model I was looking at was the WD15EADS. The older 4-platter WD15EADS-00R6B0 revision seems to work OK, from what I found, but I prefer fewer platters from noise, vibration, heat & reliability perspectives. The newer 3-platter WD15EADS-00P8B0 revision seems to have serious problems - see links below. WD15EARS: Also, very recently WD brought out a 3-platter WD15EARS-00Z5B1 revision, based on 'Advanced format' where it uses 4KB sector sizes instead of the old traditional 512 byte sector sizes. Again, these drives seem to have serious issues - see links below. Does ZFS handle this new 4KB sector size automatically and transparently, or does something need to be done for it work? Reference: 1. On synology site, seems like older 4-platter 1.5TB EADS OK (WD15EADS-00R6B0), but newer 3 platter EADS have problems (WD15EADS-00P8B0): http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=151&t=19131&sid=c1c446863595a5addb8652a4af2d09ca 2. A mac user has problems with WD15EARS-00Z5B1: http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/WD-1-5TB-Green-drives-Useful-as-door-stops/td-p/1217/page/2 (WD 1.5TB Green drives - Useful as door stops) http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/WDC-WD15EARS-00Z5B1-awful-performance/m-p/5242 (WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1 awful performance) Cheers, Simon http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
