Recommended 8tb drives

[Eli Singer]

Currently using X8 HGST 4TB drives that are about to fill up. Never failed on me and they're speedy enough.

Thinking of going 8TB but can't seem to find a recommended 8TB drive by the community.

The cheapest option is this Seagate Archive HDD 8TB SATA III: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1107004-REG/seagate_st8000as0002_archive_hdd_8tb_sata.html

The WD reds and the Seagate NAS options are $70 more expensive- are they worth it?
WD red: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1237919-REG/wd_wd80efzx_8tb_red_5400_rpm.html
Seagate NAS: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1220250-REG/seagate_st8000vn0002_8tb_nas_sata_iii.html

The Seagate NAS has the best specs for what it's worth with sustainable 216MB transfers and 256MB cache.

Any ideas?

 

[maglin]

I'm using 3 of those 8TB Archive drives in my box right now. They are for media storage mainly so I didn't need performance. But even when I got to 83% full they still where plenty fast enough to keep up with 3 separate transcodes worth of data. They are SMR drive and everyone here says not to use them. I've always used regular drives for everything else that isn't media. So IMO if you are just going to put media and cold storage on them they work fine for me. Beyond that or for anything that requires drive performance I couldn't tell you as I have a 2vdev 6x2TB RAIDZ2 pool that handles everything else.

 

[Dice]

Typically it is recommended to stay away from the 'archive type drives' that uses a shingled storage method. These do not cope well with Copy-on-Write used by ZFS.
If you're more interested in these discussions, it should be easy to search and find threads in the forum.
TLDR: Stay away from Seagate Archive. WD is a far better option.

 

[CraigD]

They work until they get stressed, then they don't

Good luck if you need to resilver a drive
https://youtu.be/CR_bfbOTY1o