hard drive choices..???

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ok so im running whsv1 and will be doing a rebuild soon. im planning on upgrading some of the drives and am looking for advice on which drives to use.
at present i have 1 seagate 500gb os drive 3x 1.5tb wd green drives and 1x2tb eards wd drive. im planning to have 4x 2tb drives after the upgrade for the pool, so ill be buying at least 3 more 2tb drives.
i know the new wd ears drives have issues, but the jumper fix seems to work for the majority of people that have posted on the subject that ive read. i actually havent read anyone having any problems with it, so this seems like the best way to go.
after doing research on the hitachi 2tb drives and their ridiculous failure rates i dont think i want to touch those.
what about the seagate barracuda green or the LP drives? i havent heard them being mentioned at all.
any help would be appreciated. thanks.
 
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Seagate desktop drives are the worst in existence. If you want, get the WD Green or Blue drives, those are very reliable and are low-power.

As for your OS drive, you may want to consider replacing it with a WD Black, or a Samsung F3 or F4.

Seagate does have good drives, but they are only the GoFlex and Cheetah line of drives, imo. ;)
 
Red Falcon said:
Seagate desktop drives are the worst in existence. If you want, get the WD Green or Blue drives, those are very reliable and are low-power.

As for your OS drive, you may want to consider replacing it with a WD Black, or a Samsung F3 or F4.

Seagate does have good drives, but they are only the GoFlex and Cheetah line of drives, imo. ;)
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yea i have another wd 640 black aals drive that i was going to use for my os drive.
 
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I've been running 10 1.5TB Seagates, the 7200.11 "massive failure" drives for almost 2 years now. So far I have only had one die suddenly, the others have been fine. I also had good experience dealing with Seagate RMA process.

That said, I'm itching to upgrade the drives, and am looking at either the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB or WD Black 2TB. My requirements are: speed > warranty > cost, so I don't mind paying extra for 7200RPM drives with 5 year warranties.

WD green's have a very good reputation around here, as do the slower Samsung drives.
 
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I've been running 10 1.5TB Seagates, the 7200.11 "massive failure" drives for almost 2 years now. So far I have only had one die suddenly, the others have been fine. I also had good experience dealing with Seagate RMA process.

That said, I'm itching to upgrade the drives, and am looking at either the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB or WD Black 2TB. My requirements are: speed > warranty > cost, so I don't mind paying extra for 7200RPM drives with 5 year warranties.

WD green's have a very good reputation around here, as do the slower Samsung drives.
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well at this point the wd green drives are alot cheaper than the black, and so far they seem to yield decent performance. id love to just use 2tb black drives but since my server is on 24/7 im not sure how much extra power that would end up using. well that plus they are almost twice as much as the green drives here. $89 vs $149. has anyone actually gone and used the 2tb black drives in their whs??? if its worth more to get the black drives then i might just do that.
 
Samsung drives are fantastic in my opinion. WD would be my second choice.
 
I've had a 1tb WD green (not sure on the exact model) running for probably 3 years with no problem. I just ordered 3 of the Samsung F4's for my new nas box. They seem to be highly recommended and are reported to rival 7200rpm drives in many cases.

If you were doing raid I would say get the same model if you can find them, otherwise it probably doesn't matter too much. Either the WD since you already have one or the Samsung.
 
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