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Best 2TB drives for ZFS?
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Trepidati0n
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Anyone have any ideas? No one seems to agree on this.
If no one agrees, maybe there is no "best"?
If no one agrees, maybe there is no "best"?
Possibly, but there certainly is a "worst." I have heard sector size matters, "enterprise class drives" are not desired, and other things
Any of them are fine for ZFS, everyone disagrees because its more of a brand preference. I use Samsung HD204UI's in my RAIDZ ZFS array as they are 74.99 each so the price was right and they are great drives. If you get a 4k sector size drive as many of them are except some Hitachis you will have to add a few steps during pool creation to make ZFS aware of the sector size for best performance, but its simple.
Any of them are fine for ZFS, everyone disagrees because its more of a brand preference. I use Samsung HD204UI's in my RAIDZ ZFS array as they are 74.99 each so the price was right and they are great drives. If you get a 4k sector size drive as many of them are except some Hitachis you will have to add a few steps during pool creation to make ZFS aware of the sector size for best performance, but its simple.
Well if it comes down to just the brand, I am going to choose the Western Digital. They never did me wrong in the past.
I'm thinking the WD20EARX model which are indeed 4k sector size. What are these steps you speak of?
I have 6 Samsung F4EG (2TB, 4K sector) - I used ZFSGuru to initially create my array, formatted the drives with GEOM and ashift=12. Other 4K drives should just need the same. I'm still setting up my server, but these drives have worked great for me so far.
You can also ignore these steps and just use the drives out of the box. It's only a performance issue as I understand it, and probably not one you'd ever notice in a practical sense.
You can also ignore these steps and just use the drives out of the box. It's only a performance issue as I understand it, and probably not one you'd ever notice in a practical sense.