Poetart
Dabbler
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2018
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It's up to you, but WD will not honor warranties for drives pulled from external enclosures. Even if you are able to reinstall the drive in its enclosure, and convince WD that you never removed the drive, the warranty is only 2 years instead of 3 years. If having warranty protection is important to you, then I would reconsider, though that is an incredible $/GB.
Mulling it over. I'll pick up the RED's for my long term media storage / Archive. Going to take up the most space and need the least amount of speed.
Ill stick with the Drives I currently have for the block storage for now. Work on getting the seagates
Seems like you have to chunk a lot of space out of the vol for a few things. http://wintelguy.com/zfs-calc.pl
Thinking of a 4 or 5 drive RAIDZ1 for it.
5 is getting a little close to the comfort-zone for one parity drive but should be fine (Think its more the cost getting to me than anything).
4 is not recommenced in a Z1 and having one less drive and moving into a RAIDZ2 seems like it might shave off too much storage to be useful.
Right now, Media Library is taking up about 5.79TB. Once I get a stable array and finish DL'ing a lot of my old missing media I should be around the 8-10TB mark.
So ~12-14TB of usable space ( This is not taking the slop and 20% free space into account ) is what I am aiming for.
Just making sure I make the right decision before I drop 400-600 on HDD.