As I previously mentioned, I'm pretty happy with the 500GB Caviar Blacks that I have :)
One word of caution: failure and rebuild times with 1TB+ drives can be a concern. How many spindles were you planning? -marc On 2/3/10, Simon Breden <sbre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds good. > > I was taking a look at the 1TB Caviar Black drives which are WD1001FALS I > think. > They seem to have superb user ratings and good reliability comments from > many people. > > I consider these "full fat" drives as opposed to the LITE (green) drives, as > they spin at 7200 rpm instead of 5400 rpm, have higher performance and burn > more juice than the Green models, but they have superb reviews from almost > everyone regarding behaviour and reliability, and at the end of the day, we > need good, reliable drives that work well in a RAID system. > > I can get them for around the same price as the cheapest 1.5TB green drives > from Samsung. > Somewhere I saw people saying that WDTLER.EXE works to allow reduction of > the error reporting time like the enterprise RE versions (RAID Edition). > However I then saw another user saying on the newer revisions WD have > disabled this. I need to check a bit more to see what's really the case. > > 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 > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
