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Backblaze uses them in their storage pods. "We are constantly looking at new hard drives, evaluating them for reliability and power consumption. The Hitachi 3TB drive (Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630) is our current favorite for both its low power demand and astounding reliability."...

Thanks for the warning, I decided on ZFS and WD20EARS a few months ago and haven't really followed up on it since then. I'll be getting HD204UIs now. That even saves me money, the HD204UIs are 10$ cheaper then WD20EARs here in Austria, I just chose the WDs because I had some bad experiences with...

I haven't decided on an OS yet because I'll choose between FreeBSD and OpenSolaris based on whatever works best with the controller I'll be getting, since the computer will only be used for storage. A friend of mine has a 8 disk raidz2 in a computer with 2gb RAM and similar CPU, and from what...

I'm planing do build a fileserver with 10xWD20EARS 2TB HDDs and ZFS raidz2. The computer I'll be using has a GF7050V-M7 motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz cpu, 2GB RAM and an onboard Geforce 7050 powered by some nameless 150W PSU. I'm new to all of this so I still have a few questions...