Server Drive Recommendations

[frodotheturtle]

hi! Im turning an old 2009 8 core apple xserve into a nas/blenderrender machine. It has 3 bays so im going to put an 120gb ssd in as the boot drive and use the other 2 for a nas drive in raid 1. i need around 2-4tbs in capacity but am looking to spend as little as possible on drives without getting anything sketchy. thanks

[LIGISTX]

If you plan to use an SSD, does the mobo have more SATA ports? I guess it’s somewhat of a moot point since you can then only put 3 spinning rust drives in it, but you can just throw the ssd anywhere, including double stick taping it somewhere lol.

 

But since your only option is 3 drives, I guess your right with your RAID 1 strategy. You wouldn’t want to do RAID 5 as that’s poor redundancy in today’s day and age...

 

But, WD Reds are fanstastic nas drives. Depending on the software or hardware solution, the reds won’t drop out of RAID like normal drives may do. 

[frodotheturtle]

20 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

If you plan to use an SSD, does the mobo have more SATA ports? I guess it’s somewhat of a moot point since you can then only put 3 spinning rust drives in it, but you can just throw the ssd anywhere, including double stick taping it somewhere lol.

 

But since your only option is 3 drives, I guess your right with your RAID 1 strategy. You wouldn’t want to do RAID 5 as that’s poor redundancy in today’s day and age...

 

But, WD Reds are fanstastic nas drives. Depending on the software or hardware solution, the reds won’t drop out of RAID like normal drives may do. 

thanks. as far as the ssd goes i was planing on just double side tapping it in one of the hot plug drive caddys.

[Salacious B Crum]

I'm running WD Reds and am very happy with them no problems with any of them

[frodotheturtle]

im reopening this deisuction to ask if its better to save the $40 and get 2tb wd blues or get reds. im poor but don't want to lose data. i was thinking the blues might be more of an option due to me running them in raid 1. Thanks

[AbsoluteFool]

On 1/18/2019 at 2:56 AM, frodotheturtle said:

hi! Im turning an old 2009 8 core apple xserve into a nas/blenderrender machine. It has 3 bays so im going to put an 120gb ssd in as the boot drive and use the other 2 for a nas drive in raid 1. i need around 2-4tbs in capacity but am looking to spend as little as possible on drives without getting anything sketchy. thanks

Doesen't those servers have a controller limit? What i'm saying is: Are you sure the server can see 4TB drives?

[dalekphalm]

On 1/17/2019 at 8:56 PM, frodotheturtle said:

hi! Im turning an old 2009 8 core apple xserve into a nas/blenderrender machine. It has 3 bays so im going to put an 120gb ssd in as the boot drive and use the other 2 for a nas drive in raid 1. i need around 2-4tbs in capacity but am looking to spend as little as possible on drives without getting anything sketchy. thanks

In a RAID1 environment, disk choice doesn't honestly matter that much.

 

If you want to save the most amount of money, buy a pair of WD Blue or Seagate Barracuda drives.

 

If you want to get a bit more "reliable" drives, upgrade to WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf.

 

Anything above that is overkill unless you find a super sick deal on Red Pro's or Enterprise drives.

[Electronics Wizardy]

On 1/25/2019 at 7:21 AM, frodotheturtle said:

im reopening this deisuction to ask if its better to save the $40 and get 2tb wd blues or get reds. im poor but don't want to lose data. i was thinking the blues might be more of an option due to me running them in raid 1. Thanks

If you don't want to loose data make sure you have good backups aswell.

 

Also those systems have 4 drive bays, if you want more get some drives connected to pcie.

 

Also look at external storage.