Re: [PLUG] HARD DRIVES

[Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org>]

It’s anecdotal surely but in 10 or so years of running my personal FreeBSD ZFS ~12tb raw NAS I’ve had 5 or 6 Seagate drives fail and very few, perhaps no WD Red drives fail. 

I mixed and matched drives for a while but found slight quirks between brands made interoperability difficult.  I’ve standardized on 2tb and now 4tb WD Red drives and have had very few problems.

I did use WD Green drives with no problems for some time.  I switched red as the price difference wasn’t significant.

-morgan


> On Apr 7, 2018, at 5:56 PM, Ronald P Guilmet <ronpguilmet@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I need to purchase a number of 1TB drives (2.5). They have to be production quality, but not top of the line. Are there any guidelines to go buy in searching out these products? I wanted to reach out to get some feedback.
> 
> 
> Ron Guilmet
> Philly Data Solutions, LLC | DBA Philly AWS
> ronald.guilmet@phillydatasolutions.com
> http://phillydatasolutions.com
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