1st NAS Build - Hard drive selection

[cpotter638]

Hello. Planning on building my 1st NAS. Via initial research, I'm looking at running:
FreeNas 0.8 with ZFS
6 Hard drives (Either 1.5TB or 2.0TB) with Raidz2

In a post on another site, there was suggestion of compatibility issues between "green" drives and ZFS. I cannot find info online to support this.

Questions:

• Can anyone confirm / refute compatibility issues with green drives and FreeNas with ZFS setup? As such, should I avoid green drives?
• Any other drives that I should avoid?
• Any recommended drives?
• Sata 3.0Gb/s or 6.0Gb/s? Or doesn't matter?

Thanks for the help. Chad

 

[Zorac]

unless your made of money, wait until the prices comes down! i was planning a pair of seagate 2tb green till I saw they doubled in price!

 

[cpotter638]

Price increase secondary to flooding in Thailand. I read last week that prices will probably remain high for a relatively long time (6 months or more). Cannot wait that long. Was hoping for some deals on cyber Monday, but no substantial deals to be had.

 

[ixidor]

i managed to snatch up 3 2TB seagate 5900 rpm drives for $70 each : P ended up sending back a $200 drive i had ordered from newegg.