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No point in a hot spare for a raid 1, which freenas calls a mirror, just add the disk to the mirror resulting in a 3 disk mirror. You'll be better protected that way.Thanks for putting this up, I grabbed 2 of these on the black Friday sale for a RAID 1 on my freeNAS box... I had been kicking myself for not having a hot spare available.
Is this a single drive, or 2 drives in a JBOD configuration?
Also, I don't want to Shuk, Jive, or otherwise modify the thing. I simply want it as a mass storage drive and backup drive for Windows 10.
I assume it's good enough for that.
Its a WD100EMAZ white label drive generally, which is the same speed/cache/reliability as the 5400 rpm WD NAS red drive.Single drive. I forget the model number, but there is a reddit thread about the model numbers they come with.
Its a WD100EMAZ white label drive generally, which is the same speed/cache/reliability as the 5400 rpm WD NAS red drive.
10GB Drives. JC. For $180. Whoda thunk it?
My first hard drive was for a TRS-80 Model 4 in the early 80's. It was $2795.00 for 15MB (Yes, MEGABYTES!). That's just about enough to hold ONE relatively complex Word Document these days.
That's just fucking amazing.
my first job as a tech was installing these new fangeled FIVE (5) MB drives, full height 5.25" heavy as a cinder block, they replaced a full height 5.25" single sided floppy drive
the controller card was full length double wide and got rather warm, wide bulky cables
a few years later when seagate came out with the 20mb half height drives we were blown away
before then drives never parked the heads, you had to remember to run a parking utility
I still shake my head at smartphones in wonder, meanwhile kids today haven't a clue
My favorite drives of all time were the Maxtor MXT-540's. These things had amazing fucking transaction rates and I'm not even sure today's drive could match.
I still have a Maxtor 8gig IDE drive in the spare pile I purchased new back in 96 or 98, if refuses to die.
I kinda miss Maxtor, but the MXT series was kinda their last really good drives.
Yeah, the ST-225-1's and ST-252-1's were frickin' awesome when they came out.
IIRC, I bought an external Mac drive that had an ST-252-2 40MB drive in it. I believe it was around $500 in 1987 or so.
The ST-252-2 was a major improvement over the ST-252-1. IIRC, it dropped the seek time from 40ms to 28ms. Laughable numbers by todays standards!
The one bad drive of the era was the ST-238R-1, the first RLL drive. It was a total POS and failure was almost guaranteed within a year.
My favorite drives of all time were the Maxtor MXT-540's. These things had amazing fucking transaction rates and I'm not even sure today's drive could match.
I remember some drives back then used to be capable of RLL if you bought an RLL controller and reformatted the drive.
Instantly more space. That was a fun trick.
How many of you old-timers remember what this is?
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I remember some drives back then used to be capable of RLL if you bought an RLL controller and reformatted the drive.
Instantly more space. That was a fun trick.
How many of you old-timers remember what this is?
g=c800:05
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Yep. It turned a 20MB ST-225-1 into a 30MB ST-225-1 instantly And it was VERY unstable.
I remember some drives back then used to be capable of RLL if you bought an RLL controller and reformatted the drive.
Instantly more space. That was a fun trick.
How many of you old-timers remember what this is?
g=c800:05
.
I hope this bastard lives nowhere near me.
That being said, it's only 2520$ worth of drives. I say "only" because people are dropping 2600$ or more on a pair of GPUs that probably won't even last them 2-5 years, while most HDDs will last you several.
Yes, they still require a backpane that doesn't power the 3.3v line, kaphlon tape over the pin, or a snipped cable on the power connector (or molex to sata adapter).Do these drives still have the 3.3 volt issue?
Same here my TS-1635AX is full and happy with the 8TB white drives.Working great in my Qnap TS-832X-8G-US. No issue with the 3.3V line that legacy backplanes have.
It’s what is this 3.3v thing. I’m just curious.
No its a change in quite a few modern drives, not quite common yet, but not uncommon either.Ok. Got it.
Is this just a WD thing?
Am I missing something -- the price shows as $199. I actually purchased one at that price earlier in the week because I needed one but this isn't the $179.99 pricing.It's back...
Am I missing something -- the price shows as $199. I actually purchased one at that price earlier in the week because I needed one but this isn't the $179.99 pricing.