Hard drives - quick question

[KMR]

Hey Folks,

I'm planning on building a FreeNAS box for my brother for Xmas and want to keep the cost as low as possible. Cyberjock, I know this is making you sweat already, but don't worry! I'm still going to use a SM motherboard, ECC RAM, and a UPS. This will encompass most of the cost as I already have a PSU and hard drives. Here is the problem: I have 2x WD Green 3tb drives and 2x Seagate 7200RPM 3TB drives. I was thinking of running a 3x3TB RAIDZ1 setup on this machine and if the pool ever detonates I can restore from my server. Is there a problem with mixing 5400RPM and 7200RPM drives? I would like to keep the cost down so buying another drive (of either kind) would be nice, but if I have to bite the bullet I will.

Thanks!

 

[cyberjock]

It's not a problem to mix the drives at all. Latency will be a little weird, but nothing you are likely to ever notice in a home setting.

Don't forget to wdidle.exe those Greens!

 

[DrKK]

Yeah let me just augment what CJ said. The greens will work great, but you DEFINITELY want to run wdidle.exe on them before you use them in a NAS. If you don't know what we're talking about, just say so, and we can explain.

 

[KMR]

Yeah, I know what it is for and I will use it. Can someone provide a link to the tool?

Thx

 

[MtK]

CJ wrote you the keyword, just search for it in google: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=609&sid=113