Hi, I'm planning on buying new drives after I run out of space
And after research, it seems that the WD Ultrastar looks really good
Even too good for the price.
Right now what I have is this
3X WD Red 3TB
And they are great and do the job, but I ran out of space...
I am debating between the HUH721212ALE600 - 0F30144
and the HUH721212ALN600 -0F30141
Both look the same except one is a 4k sector and the other is 512e
According to what I understood, it doesn't matter that much because the 512e is just simply to support old systems, but both are actually 4k. I would appreciate an explanation of this and if it is really true?
So what I'm asking are these models good and reliable? It's WD so I hope so. And which one do you recommend or a completely different model what's the 12TB they have too many models from what I've seen... I'm already lost.
My motherboard is: Supermicro X9SRL-F
And I plan to use the 3 existing drives I already have and an SSD for the boot disk.
Then I will add 5 more drives of the WD Ultrastar in a separate pool in RAID-Z2. This motherboard has a total of 10 SATA connections. Will I experience a decrease or a problem in performance if I connect it through the SCU and also through the normal SATA controller? And in SATA2 and not SATA3?
Basically, SATA2 is limited to 300MB so there shouldn't be a problem right?
Would appreciate help.
And after research, it seems that the WD Ultrastar looks really good
Even too good for the price.
Right now what I have is this
3X WD Red 3TB
And they are great and do the job, but I ran out of space...
I am debating between the HUH721212ALE600 - 0F30144
and the HUH721212ALN600 -0F30141
Both look the same except one is a 4k sector and the other is 512e
According to what I understood, it doesn't matter that much because the 512e is just simply to support old systems, but both are actually 4k. I would appreciate an explanation of this and if it is really true?
So what I'm asking are these models good and reliable? It's WD so I hope so. And which one do you recommend or a completely different model what's the 12TB they have too many models from what I've seen... I'm already lost.
My motherboard is: Supermicro X9SRL-F
And I plan to use the 3 existing drives I already have and an SSD for the boot disk.
Then I will add 5 more drives of the WD Ultrastar in a separate pool in RAID-Z2. This motherboard has a total of 10 SATA connections. Will I experience a decrease or a problem in performance if I connect it through the SCU and also through the normal SATA controller? And in SATA2 and not SATA3?
Basically, SATA2 is limited to 300MB so there shouldn't be a problem right?
Would appreciate help.