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Greens would work, but are limited to 5400RPM so your data transfer rate will take a hit with that. Reds are WD's "NAS" drives, with some advanced features, bu
by zer01 11y ago
Greens would work, but are limited to 5400RPM so your data transfer rate will take a hit with that.
Reds are WD's "NAS" drives, with some advanced features, but the Segate ST2000DM001/ST3000DM001 have worked very well for me with multiple years of almost constant data access.
Sidenote: the upgrade from 4x2TB to 4x3TB was extremely simple, I just failed my drives over one at a time, so as long as you do everything at once you can expand everything really easily with ZFS.
- throwaway7767 11y agoThe seagates worked well for me for a long time when they were directly attached to SATA ports, until I got a chassis with a SAS backplane. Their firmware had some bugs which would stall all transfers on the whole backplane (not just the one disk) for about 30 seconds when there was a lot of activity. I switched to WD REDs after that, haven't had any issues since.
- zer01 11y agoReally? That's interesting (and shitty!). Thanks for the heads up!