Hi,
I have read the n00b guides and have searched around here and I am still having a dilemma between these hard drives:
1. 3TB WD Red WD30EFRX
2. 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000
For $price/GB wise, they are close to each other. I will be setting up 11 of these drives in RAIDZ3 and here is the delimma...
Seagate drive is not designed for 24/7 operation but has more storage (which I would like, even though I may not use it immediately). Can this 24/7 thing be counter acted by setting the spin down option for each drive in FreeNAS?
WD is said to be rated for 24/7 operation with 1,000,000 hours MTBF and they claim this drive is designed for NAS. This is lacking the 4TB option which I read somewhere on the web that WD might be releasing a 4TB drive this year. I need the server up in this month to move all my data over. I have approximately 5TB of data (movies, photos, videos and tons of small documents).
I know I am not even using 50% of the available capacity with either setup so even 2TB option will probably satisfy my current needs. Isn't it better to set it once and don't have to worry about upgrading in a year or two better? The other thing is about RPM of the drives. These are 5*** RPMs. I will be accessing these small documents much more frequently than streaming movies. Should I be concerned with the lower RPM or should I look into 7200 RPM drives?
These drives will be paired with E3-1230v2 and 32GB of RAM so other hardware components won't be the bottle neck for these larger drives.
Thank you in advance for helping me out.
I have read the n00b guides and have searched around here and I am still having a dilemma between these hard drives:
1. 3TB WD Red WD30EFRX
2. 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000
For $price/GB wise, they are close to each other. I will be setting up 11 of these drives in RAIDZ3 and here is the delimma...
Seagate drive is not designed for 24/7 operation but has more storage (which I would like, even though I may not use it immediately). Can this 24/7 thing be counter acted by setting the spin down option for each drive in FreeNAS?
WD is said to be rated for 24/7 operation with 1,000,000 hours MTBF and they claim this drive is designed for NAS. This is lacking the 4TB option which I read somewhere on the web that WD might be releasing a 4TB drive this year. I need the server up in this month to move all my data over. I have approximately 5TB of data (movies, photos, videos and tons of small documents).
I know I am not even using 50% of the available capacity with either setup so even 2TB option will probably satisfy my current needs. Isn't it better to set it once and don't have to worry about upgrading in a year or two better? The other thing is about RPM of the drives. These are 5*** RPMs. I will be accessing these small documents much more frequently than streaming movies. Should I be concerned with the lower RPM or should I look into 7200 RPM drives?
These drives will be paired with E3-1230v2 and 32GB of RAM so other hardware components won't be the bottle neck for these larger drives.
Thank you in advance for helping me out.