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Which hard disk drives for HP Microserver NAS?

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I took delivery of a new HP Microserver yesterday, which will form the basis of my new NAS/fileserver project. My plan is to use FreeBSD 8.2 amd64, booting from a USB flash drive on the internal USB port and use four large disks in a ZFS raidz configuration.

I'm trying to work out which disks are best to use though. My last storage project was a mini-tower fileserver with six disks - two 640GB's mirrored for the OS, and four 1.5TB's in a raidz pool. For that, I selected Western Digital Green WD15EADS-00P8B0 disks for the big pool, but later came to regret it due to the idle spindown timeout of 8 seconds pushing the load-cycle count through the roof. I still have three of those disks, but I'm not sure I should reuse them for this. I wouldn't be able to source a fourth matching disk now anyway since the Advanced Format WD15EARS superseded them.

My requirements are as follows:

  • 2TB capacity (maybe 1.5TB)
  • Cool
  • Quiet
  • Low power
  • No idle spindown, or only spindown after a longer idle time (>1min)
  • Not Advanced Format, unless there are AF disks available that do report their 4KB sectors to the OS.

I'll be gradually reading through these forums to try to get an idea of which drives are well regarded these days, but does anyone have any easy advice on vendors/models that they can pass my way?

Thanks.
 
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