I recently wrote a blog about a local petabyte system. They use the WD 
red nas drives.

http://kateleyco.com/?p=815

linda


On 12/1/14, 9:07 PM, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote:
> Thanks, I was leaning toward giving the Red NAS drives a shot, but 
> went with two WD Blue drives, they were on sale really cheap. I 
> noticed some manufacturers don't even make 1 TB anymore, which is 
> actually what I'd prefer to stick with. RAID drives with 3 - 4 TB give 
> me the impression there is a little more room for failure on a RAID, 
> that, and it's more than I need.
>
> I've used green drives when handed them to me at a previous job for a 
> NAS, they actually did okay for about a year of large (images) being 
> archived on them, then one of four started relocating sectors like 
> crazy. I wouldn't rule the greens out with spares on hand for a home NAS.
>
> I've seen the studies about Seagate. I must of lucked out before they 
> went south, the first two I have still have their 5 year warranty and 
> no issues popping up in SMART yet (I think they are about 4 years old 
> now).
>
> Backing up the old raid to an external. With the amount of backups I 
> have, if I do decide to try zfs before the sticking with a Linux 
> software raid I'll post the experience here.
>
> Thanks again for all the great suggestions,
>
> --
> Jeremy MountainJohnson
> Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com <mailto:Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com>
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:55 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com 
> <mailto:tclug at freakzilla.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've been using WD Red drives in my arrays for a few years now.
>     Had one (out of like 16) go bad after a year or so, WD replaced it
>     with no hassle at all.
>
>     I would recommend buying at least 1 extra drive per array, so you
>     have a hot-spare.
>
>
>     On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Dan Armbrust wrote:
>
>         On 11/29/2014 09:06 AM, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote:
>
>             Based on a lot of recent tests, I'll probably go with
>             Western Digital
>             drives for the cost savings and longevity, unless anyone
>             has other
>             suggestions?
>
>
>         Based on the pile of dead drives laying on my desk right now
>         (and the links below), avoid Seagate like the plague.  Unless
>         you really like swapping disks all the time.
>         I tried out a WD "Green" drive for an application where
>         performance didn't matter as well (offline storage in a fire
>         safe, with monthly updates), because
>         it was cheap - and it was junk too.  It literally worked 3
>         times, before failed entirely.
>
>         Higher end WD is probably better - but lately, I've been
>         spending the extra $ for Hitachi / HGST drives for systems
>         where I don't want to deal with drive failures:
>
>         https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
>         https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
>
>         WD now owns the Hitachi drive line, but they don't seem to
>         have ruined it yet.
>
>         As far as disk size... 2 or 3 TB isn't that much higher than 1
>         TB these days....  especially if you go with the cheapest
>         drives, and just deal with the inevitable failures.
>
>         Depending on how the numbers shake out, however, you might
>         come out ahead just running 3 6TB drives in a mirror config,
>         rather than 5 smaller drives in a different RAID config to get
>         your 2 drive fail-safety.  Another nice aspect of a simple
>         mirror setup, is  you can pull a drive and read it, without
>         needing the RAID config.
>
>         Dan
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