What Hard Drives Do You Use In Your FreeNAS Box?

[cyberjock]

The world is against me. Placed 2 orders with Newegg less than 30 seconds apart and one order arrived today, the other tomorrow. WTF. /cryinacorner

 

[Z300M]

The world is against me. Placed 2 orders with Newegg less than 30 seconds apart and one order arrived today, the other tomorrow. WTF. /cryinacorner

If the orders were for different items, they may be stocked in and shipped from different warehouses.

 

[Yatti420]

Or they used 2 boxes ( I hate when they do this) I hate it more when they drop ship items with no permission or indication on a front porch..

 

[cyberjock]

Both orders were the same thing, 6TB drives times 5, and my friend and I submitted just seconds apart. We were on the phone when the orders were made.

 

[anodos]

Depending on the situation I use either SATA or SAS drives.

In my current test / play rig I have 4TB Seagate Constellation SATA drives (enterprise) model no = ST4000NM0033.
I had one of these fail at 90 days. Infant mortality. Replaced under warranty.

 

[hungarianhc]

I have 5 drives in Raid-Z2. They are all 4TB SATA drives. They are all NAS specific drives. I have two Seagate ST4000VN000 drives and three WD Red 4TB drives. As they fail, I'll upgrade one at a time to 6TB drives, and I'll slowly expand my capacity that way

 

[jgreco]

I'm waiting for the 8's or preferably 10's ... shouldn't be long now.

http://www.extremetech.com/computin...hard-drives-with-10tb-and-hamr-on-the-horizon

 

[ghost reaper]

hey any update on 6tb WD RED or any RED drives thinking of change to them

 

[cyberjock]

I'm using my 10 6TB Reds on my server in a RAIDZ2 and very happy with them. No problems at all. The only thing to really keep in mind is that scrubs take a long time because it's a crapload of data. ;)

Compared to my 2TB drives the 6TB drives are about 50% faster, but are 300% bigger. So this is totally expected and normal.

 

[ghost reaper]

thanks for quick update cyberjock, just moved form 9.2 to 9.3 freenas and like it alot more seems more stable then 9.2

 

[SLIMaxPower]

I am using 3TB WD Greens in both of my 10 drive raidz2, which are getting seriously low in space :(

6 grand to upgrade to 6TB drives is freaking me out!!!

 

[ghost reaper]

im in australia and not cheap for 6tb about $400 each and plus shipping