Unraid Parity drive

[Calidus]

Right, so I currently have an unraid server with a 2Tb Seagate Skyhawk as a parity drive, originally based on opinions on reddit and unraid forums that a surveillance drive made for 24/7 writes would work well. I recently bought a 4Tb Toshiba S300 which is their own surveillance drive to swap out with the Skyhawk to allow bigger drives into the array. However, I recently scored a new HPE 4Tb drive (rebranded Seagate Exos based on model number) for the same price as a Barracuda new, lucky indeed.

 

Now my question as I don't know much about these drives, would the Exos be better suited for a parity drive then a surveillance drive? or would it make no real difference?

 

Thanks!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id say it won't make any real difference. Ive done some test on the surveillance vs normal server drives, and performance wise there basically the same.