Toshiba Hard Drives for FreeNAS?

[Romulus]

My plan was to get WD Reds for my FreeNAS build, but I can get my hands on 4 new 2tb Toshibas DT01ACA200 hard drives for a reasonable price....much less that what they are listed in Amazon. Should I go for it or wait until I get my hands on WD Reds?

 

[m0nkey_]

The SATA interface 7,200 RPM desktop series drives are targeted at desktop all-in-one and gaming PCs, home servers, external HDDs, and consumer electronics products such as set-top boxes and digital video recorders.

These are not drives intended to go into a NAS. You may want to do more research before buying.

 

[Romulus]

Thanks for your advice. I did more research to find out that if I value my data I should go with NAS drives...kind of obvious.
So I am planing on 4 2tb WD red drives. My motherboard (X9SCM-F-O) has 4 Sata 2 3gb/s ports and 2 Sata3 ports. Would I be able to connect 6 wd red drives to create one volume or I only have the option to make one volume of 4 wd reds and a second volume of two wd reds? Thanks for your help.

 

[snaptec]

You can make one volume out of the 6 drives


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[Romulus]

Thanks for clarifying that. I was worried I was going to be limited to only two sata 3 hard drives, because only two of the sata ports on the motherboard are sata3. That installing 6 sata 3 hard drives across all available ports in the motherboard was not possible. Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it.