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    Western Garbage Green

    Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket. I've never had a Green die on me, or any WD drive for that matter. I have two greens above 30000 hours, a dozen or so between 15000-20000 and a handful of new ones. The only drive I have that's failed in that last few years was a Seagate 3320620AS...
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    Windows 2012 SAN

    I haven't run into that. When I first set the server up I moved about 3TB of data and routinely move/add a few to a few dozen gig to my storage spaces. I have one parity volume and one simple volume. The only thing I've noticed is that the server manager will run a little slower. Takes a...
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    Why does WD keep sending me bad hard drives?

    This. You're either extremely unlucky or there's something causing them to die.
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    Windows Storage Server 2012? Compare to ZFS?

    Really? Got a link to something I can read that shows that? I don't doubt you, I've just never seen any tests that show it above 95MB/s or so using black or red drives. I had other reason for going with Windows besides storage so I haven't put a ton of time into researching ZFS though. I'm...
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    Windows Storage Server 2012? Compare to ZFS?

    What are write speeds normally like for ZFS? Turn off journaling in SS and write is pretty close to 1 while read is N-1 which is what I expect in a parity setup. ZFS is definitely the cheaper solution, though. fwiw, I've been running 2012 and storage spaces and I've been happy. No real...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    Finally broke the 10TB barrier. 16.5 TB Total advertised storage 12.5 TB Total usable storage Chassis: Norco 4020 Motherboard: Asrock Extreme4 Z77 CPU: Intel i7 3770S RAM: 2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 Hard Disks: 6 x Western Digital WD20EARX, other 500GB to 2TB drives for less...
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