IIRC, I was looking at the Reds when I got my SAS disks, but the cost difference was only like $10 or $20 per drive to go full SAS. Obviously pricing trends change.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse DuPont" <jesse.dup...@celeritycorp.net> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 11:13:14 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Enterprise SATA Drives My impression is it's a duty cycle thing. Non-enterprise drives are not rated for the "always-on/always thrashing" use case of a VM server or NAS environment. To be more specific, I generally use drives that are approved by NAS vendors (WD RED, HSTG Enterprise, etc.). As Mike said, if you can go SAS, that's probably better than SATA (you get NCQ, higher capacity buses, sometimes larger drive cache sizes, etc. - all at higher cost). I've been running WD RED drives in my NAS for my Proxmox cluster (and VMware ESXi prior to Proxmox) for a few years with no issues. On 7/25/18 8:37 AM, Matt wrote: > Looking at updating the drives on one of our boxes we run proxmox on. > Is there a big difference between 7200 rpm drives labeled enterprise > vs simple 7200 rpm name brand drives? > -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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