Disk recommendations

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Wed Apr 17 07:26:58 UTC 2013


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 05:34:57PM -0400, David Mason wrote:
> I'm going to move my boot and swap to a SSD and everything else from
> my RAID1 to a ZRAID2 ZFS array.

You mean "root" and "swap", right? :-)

> 
> The existing disks are 1TB and partly RAID, partly not.  When I'm
> done, I'll have 3 or 4 TB fully RAID with 2 parity disks.  The truly
> paranoid ZFS types like to have a diversity of disk manufacturers and
> drives.  I know Lennart hates Seagate.  But this page:
> http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=8&sel=Detail%3B17_35_20594_28669,Detail%3B17_791_47515_47515
> has Toshiba, Samsung, and HP drives in addition to the WD-Reds that
> I'm supposed to get (although they have Intellipower, I presume it can
> be turned off).  Does anyone have opinions about those other
> manufacturers?  Based on Tiger Direct's list, it looks like WD
> pretty-much dominates the disk market these days.

Samsung for both SSD and harddisk.  I'm told Samsung sold the harddisk
business to Seagate.  WD-Red seems to be advertised for your kind of
needs, but I have no experience with it.
-- 
William

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