Best HDD's for Array

[JimmyP]

Good Morning everyone, 

 

I'm the Production Director at a Church in South Florida, our previous PD would store the back up of all our sermons on HDD's and put them in a plastic bin when not being used. so thats going to change...

 

 

I'm currently looking at getting a Drobo 5D (thunderbolt edition) to store all our sermons and our raw video files for editing.

 

 

My Question

 

What's the best HDD to use with our Drobo? (we want +2TB drives)

Should we go HDD or SSD? 

 

 

If you have any recommendations for Drives or even Raid Arrays to use let me know!  

[Izaya Orihara]

WD Red is what you should go for. 

[JimmyP]

WD Red is what you should go for.

everywhere i read sayi need to get an enterprise level drive.. do you agree with that? 

[Createinator]

Use RAID6/ RAID10 for data protection. RAID6 is slightly slower than RAID10 but offers more space for data storage. You can use Western Digital BLACK/ RED/ RE series drives for your RAID array.

[Createinator]

everywhere i read sayi need to get an enterprise level drive.. do you agree with that? 

No you do not need enterprise grade drives. Most enterprise grade drives offer slightly higher reliability but cost 1.5 to 5 times as much. Since your data is not critical, you do not need to invest so much into it. Keep in mind that RAID arrays are not backup. Timely and regular backup will protect your data more reliably than any RAID array ever could.

[91Chris]

I've been running WD greens in RAID Z for a couple of years now with no problems.

 

If you're looking for maximum transfer speeds you should first start by working out where the biggest bottleneck is, then go from there. Theres no point in buying a bunch of high end SSD's and find you can only read/write at 10MB/s.

[JimmyP]

I've been running WD greens in RAID Z for a couple of years now with no problems.

 

If you're looking for maximum transfer speeds you should first start by working out where the biggest bottleneck is, then go from there. Theres no point in buying a bunch of high end SSD's and find you can only read/write at 10MB/s.

the Drobo im getting has Thunderbolt out into an iMac or 2013 Mac Pro but i need to see the speed of the drives.

[Izaya Orihara]

everywhere i read sayi need to get an enterprise level drive.. do you agree with that? 

No you don't need to get  enterprise grade drives. WD Reds will do just fine. Setup and raid 1 and off you go. 

[JimmyP]

No you don't need to get  enterprise grade drives. WD Reds will do just fine. Setup and raid 1 and off you go. 

thank you!

[91Chris]

Which gen of Thunderbolt? 10Gb/s or 20Gb/s?

The Mac Pro should use 20Gb/s, but I'm unsure on what the iMac has.

Which does the Drobo support?

[Ralms]

Good Morning everyone, 

 

I'm the Production Director at a Church in South Florida, our previous PD would store the back up of all our sermons on HDD's and put them in a plastic bin when not being used. so thats going to change...

 

 

I'm currently looking at getting a Drobo 5D (thunderbolt edition) to store all our sermons and our raw video files for editing.

 

 

My Question

 

What's the best HDD to use with our Drobo? (we want +2TB drives)

Should we go HDD or SSD? 

 

 

If you have any recommendations for Drives or even Raid Arrays to use let me know!  

I have WD blacks, a Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB and lately decided to go with the Seagate NAS and Im really happy with it.

Its pretty much the same as the Reds but Seagate. Since I was happier with the Seagate one I decided to go for Seagate to my future home server.

 

And no, you dont need enterprise grade hard drives, u are not gonna be doing heavy operations on it, is pretty much just storage so either WD Red or Seagate NAS will do the job just fine.