Posted December 11, 2019 upgraded to 10gbit in my house, and love it, but it does demand a lot from my server, today it running a bit of different drives.. a couple of WD red 4TB drives, 1 x 12TB IronWolf, and 4 2TB WD Green drives, and NVME 750GB Mp610 drive.. (use it for fast drive as a current work folder) and a old SSD for boot. love the speed from the NVME drives, and the 250MB/sec from the ironwolf is okay, but i would like more, and have to many small drives, wanted to upgrade with an extra 12TB ironwolf, and run raid, but those are REALLY expensive. so looked into the Toshiba N300 drives, which seems fast, and cheap.. have people tried them... ? i can get 4x6TB of them for the same price as 1 12TB ironwolf, so i could also get a bit more speed over my 10Gbit. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/1133319-drives-for-a-server/ Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 11, 2019 don't know if theese are available for consumers (or fast enough) but we just bought a couple of backup servers at work and we got 8TB Seagate enterprise drives. they weren't that expensive and are perfectly capable of running under load 24/7 Anything i've written between the * and * is not meant to be taken seriously. keep in mind that helping with problems is hard if you aren't specific and detailed. i'm also not a professional, (yet) so make sure to personally verify important information as i could be wrong. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/1133319-drives-for-a-server/#findComment-13119102 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 11, 2019 don't forget, if you increase the number of drives you also increase the chance of faliure so ensure your raid array is up to spec. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/1133319-drives-for-a-server/#findComment-13119117 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted December 11, 2019 At work we have a few large arrays (~50-60TB). These are configured mostly with 8TB drives in ZFS with mirroring. As a rule, we ALWAYS mix drive brands and models in a big array. This is because a few years ago, i got stung badly with a batch of WD 1.5TB disks, which all failed within about 2 weeks of each other at about a year and a half old. Lost one RAID1 array entirely as it failed during rebuild, luckily we had a full replicated mirror on another machine, and one if its drives also failed when rebuilding the first array. Complete clusterfuck. So now, any RAID1 mirror has a pair of non-matching disks. Theres no way on earth you'd catch me doing what you see Linus doing with 45 identical drives out of the same box, into a machine running with a tiny amount of protection (eg RAID6 over 15 drives....). Just asking for trouble. A decent RAID setup will get you much higher speeds too, striped raid setups usually gain sequential performance fairly linearly. Use RAID10 or similar. Currently in use we have Ironwolf NAS, Toshiba N300, Toshiba MG05ACA800E, a few WD Reds and some Hitachi Deskstar NAS. Out of all of those, we've had a couple drives DOA from Seagate and HGST, and a few of the WD's have died in service. Toshibas have all been solid. So my personal advice is, buy the cheapest drives you can, but make sure you've mixed them up a bit, IE dont buy four N300's instead buy two of them and two of soemthing else. WD 6 and 8TB external drives often are extremely good value and can be easily removed from their case and installed internally. I'm running a few of these at home. The only drives i would avoid are the shingled Seagates, which are usually used in their non-NAS spec large drives. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/1133319-drives-for-a-server/#findComment-13119126 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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