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It's not a "fix", it's a different approach to the design based on its intended use. I've built quite a few arrays using WD RE drives without issue and next time one of my ReadyNAS boxes needs new...
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Actually I can already get CPUs for that price, since I live near two Microcenters. :) But yeah, I am leaning now towards getting an i3 or possibly i5, so that I am not disappointed with the...
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I've got a variety of green 2TB HDD's in my server. Over the years I've had to RMA several brands due to failure. WD cost me $6 to ship back to them under warranty. Expect them all to die at some...
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Dont waste time with unraid, use FreeNAS and ZFS.
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I already got seven of the 2TB for about $70 each bc they are all used.
I score a new 2TB for $85 few months back and it has a 5 yr warranty. Pretty rare breed.
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Passing on the green!
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How does this compare to Seagate Barracuda 7200 3 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3000DM001 at amazon: http://amzn.com/B005T3GRLY?
I just ordered 3TB...
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Not a bad deal. I could really use one of these right now but I need one. I might have biten if I didnt just drop a couple hundred bucks on appearance mods for my mustang. Oh well.
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Starting to wonder how many hard drive failures are because of the drive itself or because people get hard drives shipped to them by idiots that don't know how to protect fragile devices? Is it...
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Great point, so many DOAs
Newegg literally threw my monitor in a box and it came broken
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I'm fairly certain all the DOA ones are from poor shipping. I've ordered a few drives from amazon and newegg. I bought a drive a few years ago that was literally bouncing around in the shipping box...
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I'm not saying anything either way since it is a pretty attractive deal, but Tom's official stance on the matter is: two friends sharing = possibly cool, two random strangers on the internet sharing...
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I have been running UnRAID version 4.x for several years with all WD Green drives. I started with three 1 TB drives and then a 1.5 GB and then 2 TB drives. I have 14 data drives now spread across...
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I am not anti tax. I am anti how the tax $ are being siphoned by gov't employees and cronies.
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OOS on 3TB...I guess will wait for BF
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This is actually a very intelligent post. I've bought 10's of thousands of dollars worth of parts from Newegg over the years....
...I think I've only reviewed like 3 things...LOL :O
Also, this...
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Seriously, get the 7200rpm, it wont matter. There was just the 1 guy on the A400 thread who is super concerned for some reason. He doesnt realize that there's a very minor heat difference between...
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I'm seriously tempted to follow your advice. Truth to be told I was able to find 4 separate mentions on this (yours and tofumonster notwithstanding). See the attached screenshot of all 4 combined.
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That's why they have the RED drives. They fixed it, and now they want to pretend it's something special and charge more...
I'm a WD fan ( own at least 20 WD drives),, but most WD drives are crap...
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A used drive for $110 when a new one's $129? I think I'll pass.
Hopefully a good model choice, though. I just ordered one of those a few days ago and will be sticking it in the server this...
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Not to mention there's a single-guy-point-of-failure.
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I got the 3TB version a little over a year ago for around the same price (hot price back then). It's still running strong.
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I would recommend building a separate box for unraid. You could run it in a VM through ESXi, but I would build a low end box for it.
Currently I run it on an old AMD tri core with 4gb of ram. It's...
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I was trying to do the same thing as you do, and my additional goal was to make sure that data on all the drives is transparently encrypted. I have an old NAS with 4x1.5TB drives, on P4, and most of...
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Yes I have a Cooler Master HAF 932. Sorry figured people would understand what I meant considering we are in a computer parts thread.
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I have three of these and no problems. Running strong for over 1 year.
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Do not buy WD green disk. I bought a 3TB disk about one month ago. Smart error after about half a month. All data was lost. Fortunately, I have back up for most of the data. I went to newegg and read...
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For those who for the first time want to buil unraid, it's not free for more than 3 drives.
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unraid - if you have 10, 15, 20 drives... if two fail, you lose data from those two drives
in a raid 5... two fail, you lost all data...
15 drives, split up into three 5-drive RAID...
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You can also mount drives as different directory, you only lose what you have on that drive... why the need for unraid??
I'd go with a RAID5 if you're afraid of losing data. Buy three 3TB drive...
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Thanks, was looking to add 2 more 3TB drives to the storage pool. Wanted to go with the new Red drives but the rest of the WHS already has Greens in it anyways.
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ordered five...
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Agreed, and those Seagate 11s are why I stopped using Seagate forever (3 failures in 2 months!) and I'm going to give the WD's a try. Maybe not the greens though.
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Don't do this. 3TB in RAID drastically increases the chance of a second failure while it takes so much time stressing the drives in order to restore the data to the new drive you must purchase to...
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I order three 2 TB WD Green drives for $70 each from Newegg before the flood and two were DOA. I think poor packing by Newegg was the reason they were DOA. I now think that I should place one order...
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Lol. I preordered the popcorn hour A-400 a couple of days ago (which allows for an internal SATA drive as an upgrade) and was gonna pull the trigger on the 3TB 7200rpm Seagate version, since amazon...
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@ Amazon, 2TB REDs are $130, 3TB REDs are $165
NewEgg prices are $160 and $190..
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I agree completely. I have a mixture of 2tb drives in my unraid array including 6 of these WD green drives. Haven't had any problems yet. But if I do have a drive failure, unraid will do its job...
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Well of course, it's always the negative reviews that are much more likely to be posted. But VERY few products have such bad reviews. And before people just grabbed one based on the "deal", and the...
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