The only tangible difference I can see between these Western Digital NAS drives is that the standard Red spins at 5900k RPM, while the newer red PRO spins at 7200k RPM. I don't care for the added warranty on the pro series.
So this might be a silly question, but does disk performance matter for ZFS, since everything is cached in the memory? I plan on having 32gb of memory and 24tb of disks, so I don't imaging maxing out the cache and utilizing direct performance from the disks.
With that said, it would save me a good margin of money to get the standard red vs red Pro if disk performance does not matter much.
So this might be a silly question, but does disk performance matter for ZFS, since everything is cached in the memory? I plan on having 32gb of memory and 24tb of disks, so I don't imaging maxing out the cache and utilizing direct performance from the disks.
With that said, it would save me a good margin of money to get the standard red vs red Pro if disk performance does not matter much.