hitachi 5k3000 in a raid?

Rakinos

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I currently have the Adaptec 51645 and I'm looking to upgrade my current raid array to about 8, 2TB drives. The 5K3000s look like a great price point and I'm happy with Hitachi, but I haven't heard much about using this particular model in a hardware-based raid array. Does anyone have any experience with this setup?
 
Hi,

Not using that exact model, but using the new 5900 2TB Hitachi CoolSpin and the 7200RPM 3TB Hitachi's in RAIDs w/3ware controllers, no issues to date.


# tw_cli info c0

Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVrfy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u0 RAID-6 OK - - 256K 18626.3 RiW ON

VPort Status Unit Size Type Phy Encl-Slot Model
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
p0 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 0 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p1 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 1 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p2 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 2 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p3 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 3 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p4 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 4 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p5 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 5 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p6 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 6 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p7 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 7 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p8 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 8 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p9 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 9 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p10 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 10 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL
p11 OK u0 1.82 TB SATA 11 - Hitachi HDS5C3020AL


Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVrfy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u0 RAID-6 VERIFYING - 58%(A) 256K 44703.3 RiW ON

VPort Status Unit Size Type Phy Encl-Slot Model
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
p0 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 0 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p1 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 1 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p2 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 2 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p3 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 3 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p4 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 4 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p5 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 5 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p6 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 6 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p7 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 7 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p8 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 8 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p9 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 9 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p10 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 10 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p11 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 11 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p12 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 12 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p13 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 13 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p14 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 14 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p15 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 15 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p16 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 16 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
p17 OK u0 2.73 TB SATA 17 - Hitachi HDS723030AL
 
currently using the 5k3000 2TB (model: HDS5C3020ALA632 | firmware: ML6O) in one of my 5 port nas'.
not exactly what your after (hardware RAID) but the drives work well for me.
 
Sixteen of the 3TB's in R6 for about a month now on an Areca 1880i - very happy to date!
 
The 5K3000s look like a great price point and I'm happy with Hitachi, but I haven't heard much about using this particular model in a hardware-based raid array. Does anyone have any experience with this setup?

there are countless threads with people using 5K3000's in hardware raid, search is your friend. even just googling "5k3000 raid" will fill you in.
 
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