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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