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So, I'm looking at these two WD Red 3TB disks, one is labelled as pro and the other isn't
Pro
Non-Pro
The only difference I'm seeing here is that the rotational speed on the non-pro is listed as "IntelliPower"
Is the IntelliPower the WD technology that I've read about here before that has some issues on FreeNAS with spinning up and down way too often that if I remember correctly was an issue when using WD Green drives? Are there other issues or performance losses that may be encountered with IntelliPower on FreeNAS?
For the record I am still deciding between two options. Purchasing two and adding them as a second mirrored vdev to a zpool with currently one mirrored vdev. The existing disks in the pool are 7200RPM disks (one is an older WD Black and the other is an older Samsung Spinpoint.)
The other option I would be looking at would be getting 6 and putting them into RAIDZ2 configuration.
Other specs: Supermicro MBD-X10SLM-F-O, Intel Pentium G3220, 16GB Samsung DDR3 ECC.
Pro
Non-Pro
The only difference I'm seeing here is that the rotational speed on the non-pro is listed as "IntelliPower"
Is the IntelliPower the WD technology that I've read about here before that has some issues on FreeNAS with spinning up and down way too often that if I remember correctly was an issue when using WD Green drives? Are there other issues or performance losses that may be encountered with IntelliPower on FreeNAS?
For the record I am still deciding between two options. Purchasing two and adding them as a second mirrored vdev to a zpool with currently one mirrored vdev. The existing disks in the pool are 7200RPM disks (one is an older WD Black and the other is an older Samsung Spinpoint.)
The other option I would be looking at would be getting 6 and putting them into RAIDZ2 configuration.
Other specs: Supermicro MBD-X10SLM-F-O, Intel Pentium G3220, 16GB Samsung DDR3 ECC.