I'm in the process of building semi-beefy file/general-purpose-server(Lynnfield Xeon, 4GB Ecc) and hard drive choice is the problem. I've been googling for a day and a half now and the main points seem to be: - ~all consumer class drives have the same problem with TLER/ERC/CCTL - ~all "for raid" drives are 30-50% more expensive AND use more power due to being tuned for performance(even the WD GB RE4 2TB drive uses more power than the equivalent plain WD GB 2TB)
So for me there isn't a perfect choice as I intented to use 6 1,5TB drives in RAIDZ2 and then later on add more similar 6drive vdevs when needed. 1,5TB WD/Samsung drives cost ~85€ a pop, or 510€ for 6. 1TB Samsung raid drives cost 100€ a pop and to get to ~6TB usable with RAIDZ2 would mean 8 drives and 800€. 2TB drives would be even more expensive and there is some problems wiht the WD 2TB RE4 firmware so that isn't nice option either. I think that I'm likely going to take the plunge with the 1,5TB WD drives, because at least the preceding 1TB models have worked well for me, being silent and low power(albeit they aren't being used in raid). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
