On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:53:10AM +1000, Kevin wrote: > I would not give the red drives much consideration as they are > mostly a marketing change over the blacks.
given that 3TB WD Black drives are about $70 more then 3TB WD RED, that would make the RED drives a bargain. > Based on reports from companies like backblaze I would consider > hitachi deskstars if the budget permitted else go with seagate DM > series hitachi 4TB Deskstar 0S03358 is about $270 at the moment, much more expensive than the seagate ST4000DM000 at $195. > Anything advertised for enterprise purposes is really pointless. true. > WD blacks or reds are also appropriate but avoid the greens (stupid idle > timeout.) i use WD Greens in my myth box. my main /export pool is made up of a mixture of WD Green 1TB and seagate ST31000528AS. i had to reflash my LSI-based SAS card to "IT" mode to avoid idle timeout problems, but since I did that they've been working flawlessly. > the static vdev sizing is truly one of the few annoying things about zfs yep. it would be nice to do stuff like just add a fifth drive to a 4-drive raidz and have it rebalance all the data. but you can't do that (and zfs doesn't do rebalancing like btrfs either). craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> BOFH excuse #111: The salesman drove over the CPU board. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
