Anybody use Toshiba 5TB drives?

[Johhhn]

Amazon has a great deal on 5TB Toshibas for $145. Thinking of getting 6 of these to upgrade from my 6x3TB Reds. Getting low on space, so wanted your guys opinion on this 3 year warrantied, 7200RPM 128MB Cache Drive:

• Reliability. Any use this in a ZFS setup?
• Heat
• Should I spend extra $ and go to 6TB instead of 5TB? 6TB reds are $250, so that would be an extra $600 for essentially 4 more TB of usable space.
• Should I stick with Reds? 5TB reds would be about $400 more.
• And is it worth spending $870 on the Toshibas to gain 8 more TBs of usable space over my current setup? I should be able to offset some of the costs with selling my current 3tbs reds.

thanks!!

 

[zambanini]

consider the bigger resilver time.

 

[Johhhn]

consider the bigger resilver time.

in what context?

 

[cyberjock]

Not many use Toshiba drives. Those are 7200 RPM drives, so they will use more power and be warmer. So definitely consider adequate cooling.

If I were needing more space right now and those would satisfy my space needs, and I knew I could keep them cool, then I'd buy them without hesitation.

Honestly, I'd see about just making a second vdev out of the new disks and keep the current ones. Then you aren't replacing 3TB drives with 5TB drives. You are adding 5TB drives. ;)

 

[Johhhn]

Not many use Toshiba drives. Those are 7200 RPM drives, so they will use more power and be warmer. So definitely consider adequate cooling.

If I were needing more space right now and those would satisfy my space needs, and I knew I could keep them cool, then I'd buy them without hesitation.

Honestly, I'd see about just making a second vdev out of the new disks and keep the current ones. Then you aren't replacing 3TB drives with 5TB drives. You are adding 5TB drives. ;)

That thought did occur to me, but that would require me getting a SATA/Raid card and either replacing or adding another case for the drives.

My warmest WD drive right now is 36C and that's with it being 80F in the room where the server is. I'm trying to find operating temp for the Toshiba, but no luck so far. hmmm

 

[Bidule0hm]

As long as they are under 40 °C (and if possible at more than 30 °C too) it's fine ;)

If you want technical infos try the drive model + datasheet (or specs if you don't find anything with datasheet) on your favorite search engine.

 

[Johhhn]

As long as they are under 40 °C (and if possible at more than 30 °C too) it's fine ;)

If you want technical infos try the drive model + datasheet (or specs if you don't find anything with datasheet) on your favorite search engine.

unfortunately tech sheets only give a range of operating temp. I can't find any real world temps :-\

 

[Bidule0hm]

It's normal, if you want more info on real world data then look at the google paper: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/fr//archive/disk_failures.pdf ;)