Help me choose the righe disks (original question i suppose)

[Nick@Libero]

Hi at all.
First of all thanks for your work and for this portal where to find usefull information.
I'm building my second nas.

To summarize:

- Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F
- PSU Corsair HX850 80+ gold
- 128gb ddr4 2133 (8x16gb)
- xeon 2011 v3, probably a 2670
(all this listinening to the cyberjock's advices ;-) )

Now the question:

if you have to choose your favorite 10 x hdd (RAID-Z2) which one between :

- WD Red Pro WD6001FFWX
- HGST Deskstar NAS 6tb
- WD Green WD60EZRX (processed one by one by wdidle3.exe before building the vdev of course :) )

Thanks for your time,
Nicola.

 

[Mirfster]

I am thinking would recommend WD Red (but not thinking the "Pro"). I am a HGST fan myself and run the "Enterprise" version; which is 7200 RPM. Again most may say that 7200 RPM is not needed, creates more heat and has minimal to no performance increase; but I guess I "went the other way" on that. :D

128 GB is a lot of RAM, can you elaborate on your "use case"? Is this for mainly storage or are you thinking about running VMs, Jails, etc?

 

[Nick@Libero]

I am thinking would recommend WD Red (but not thinking the "Pro"). I am a HGST fan myself and run the "Enterprise" version; which is 7200 RPM. Again most may say that 7200 RPM is not needed, creates more heat and has minimal to no performance increase; but I guess I "went the other way" on that. :D

128 GB is a lot of RAM, can you elaborate on your "use case"? Is this for mainly storage or are you thinking about running VMs, Jails, etc?

You're completely right, Mirfster. My forgetfulness
Mainly use will be: storage centralized, multimedia center with plex plugin (at most 4 clients will be connected), and trasmission client.
7/24 up&running.
Thanks for your time,
Nicola.

 

[Mirfster]

Since you are running that much RAM, you may want to consider enabling "Auto-Tune" once you get FreeNas loaded. Thinking that others have said you want to use this when you have a lot of RAM; it may help maximize ARC.

 

[Nick@Libero]

Thanks Mirfster for your advice about "Auto-Tune". Every tip, by everyone, is welcome.
So, what about buying 10 x "Seagate ST8000AS0002" ?
Perhaps they are not so heat and are as reliable as the "pro" hard disk?

 

[Mirfster]

Personally, I am not a fan of Seagate. I have not had the best luck with them. Maybe they got better, but I wouldn't invest in them for my setup(s). But, that is just me.

Some food for thought: Seagate being sued for shoddy hard drives

 

[Nick@Libero]

Following your suggestions i won't buy Seagate ;)

 

[Yatti420]

They really arent that bad FYI if you don't buy weird sizes like 3TB ;).. I've lost more WD then Seagates so far..

 

[Nick@Libero]

So Yatti420, you are a sponsor of Seagate ST8000AS0002 (only an example)? :)
Which is your personal experience about hard disks ? Your zpool is composed by wd, as i can see in your sig...
Thanks as usual for your time all you guys,
Nicola.

 

[gpsguy]

I think @Arwen (sp?) is the forum spokeswoman for the 8TB Seagate drive.


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[Nick@Libero]

By the way:

My Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F has 10 x sata3 ports labeled as:

I-SATA0 - I-SATA3 SATA 3.0 Ports
I-SATA4 - I-SATA5 SATA DOM (Device_On_Module) Ports
S-SATA0 - S-SATA3 SATA 3.0 Ports

Is there a way to identify uniquely on which port is connected adaN (with N between 0 and 9) ?

 

[gpsguy]

You can see the information in the webGUI (Storage → Volumes → View Disks).

Or, just use one of @Bidule0hm 's scripts.

Look at "Display drives identification infos (Device, GPTID, Serial)" in this message - https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/scripts-to-report-smart-zpool-and-ups-status-hdd-cpu-t°-hdd-identification-and-backup-the-config.27365/

Is there a way to identify uniquely on which port is connected adaN (with N between 0 and 9) ?

 

[Nick@Libero]

Thanks !