seeking storage upgrade advise

[BottomsUp]

Hi i'm running a freenas server with SAMSUNG HD103UJ I've had for god knows how long. 10 years?

These are the specs
http://www.testhdd.com/Samsung-SpinPoint-F1-Desktop-Class-HD103UJ-hard-drive-1-TB-SATA-300-3340.html

If it worth upgrading the drives to get more transfer speed? I am thinking SSD since i access photos which is many small writes so lots of seek?

TIA

 

[Heracles]

Hey BottomsUp,

First thing would be to get redundancy before getting speed. If you have a single drive, then it means you have no redundancy at all. You should get yourself a second 1TB drive and add it as a mirror to your first drive. That will give you a first level of redundancy and will also speed up read access by letting FreeNAS read from both drives at once.

 

[BottomsUp]

Hey BottomsUp,

First thing would be to get redundancy before getting speed. If you have a single drive, then it means you have no redundancy at all. You should get yourself a second 1TB drive and add it as a mirror to your first drive. That will give you a first level of redundancy and will also speed up read access by letting FreeNAS read from both drives at once.

sorry I should’ve mentioned I have two of these in a raid mirror

 

[Samuel Tai]

You'll see a substantial increase in performance with a couple of 1TB WD Red SSDs. Each runs around $140 on Amazon.

 

[Ericloewe]

Wow, Samsung F1s? They'd been around for a while by 2010, IIRC.