Computer thread!!!

[Wschnitz]

I don't pay attention to reviews w/o stats really. Storage review.com used to be my go-to, however less and less HDDs get reviewed.

I kinda want to build a raid 10 with 10 drives, with two for hot-swap. Finding good cases for this that also look stealth are hard to come by, as then I'd have 16 drives in it. If I do that, then my backup must also be upgraded again....

You could run all the drives in a separate case near the desktop that way you can have a good looking desktop, and raid. Like a separate drive case.

[R3Z3N]

I don't pay attention to reviews w/o stats really. Storage review.com used to be my go-to, however less and less HDDs get reviewed.

I kinda want to build a raid 10 with 10 drives, with two for hot-swap. Finding good cases for this that also look stealth are hard to come by, as then I'd have 16 drives in it. If I do that, then my backup must also be upgraded again....

[Wschnitz]

Interesting, WD just seemed to get better reviews lately.

[James Crivellone]

wtf

Why so cheap!? Reviews are all over the place.

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Enterp...ankDescending#

I've bought tons of drives over the years and its interesting because they all have similar reviews.

I'll say this much, even brand new storage systems that cost 100, 200, 300+K I've had DOA drives, bad drives after 24 hours, etc.

Google put out an article many years ago stating that a typical spindle based mechanical hard drive will usually fail in the first 1 - 3 months, and frankly in the real world its true.

I've bought thousands of used hard drives over the years, all enterprise grade, FC, SAS, NL-SAS, SATA-MDL, even basic SATA.. I've probably had 20 die? Out of 1000+.. Not bad right?

Out of brand new drives? I've had disk systems with 200+ hard drives, brand new show up, and have had 20 drives fail.. not even spin up.. these are drives that retail at over 1k a PIECE.

Those reviews are typical.. it happens.. its why we have Raid, its why we have backups, and if you want piece of mind its why we have warranties.

Most hard drives these days.. are all made in the same areas of Asia, have similar IOP, similar speeds, etc.

Would I take a WD over a Seagate? would i take a Seagate over a Samsung? WD over a HGST? Nope, because they all fail with similar numbers.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf

[Wschnitz]

Yeah like I said before Seagate has kinda kicked the bucket in my opinion. They are a good price but be ready to send a few back that come DOA lol.

[R3Z3N]

Hmmm interesting.

[DEV0 E30]

Been buying quite a few Seagate 5TB Enterprise drives lately.. Good price, work great http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Enterp...ate+Enterprise

wtf

Why so cheap!? Reviews are all over the place.

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Enterprise-Capacity-3-5-Inch-ST5000NM0024/product-reviews/B00JGJ8Z2Q/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=byRankDescending#

[James Crivellone]

Been buying quite a few Seagate 5TB Enterprise drives lately.. Good price, work great http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Enterp...ate+Enterprise

[kickinindian]

So then you want WD Re

that is what i meant thanks schnitz!

[R3Z3N]

Already have 4 SSDs in my system, so yes, have that covered. 2 WD enterprise 2.5" 14mm? HDDs are covering OS/apps backup.

I did contemplate a mass of 2TB SSDs, but budget is going to my S54 swap, HDDs are still cheap enough for mass storage.

[Wschnitz]

I definitely don't want Reds, looking for more enterprise grade.

So then you want WD Re/Se/Ae. They usually run about $130 a pop.

[Wschnitz]

If your actually taking up that space then yeah WD has some great drives, in my opinion seagate took a shit lately and makes crappy drives now.

If you want the best of both worlds Raid some 1TB SSDs and get a bunch of HDDs to also run in seperate Raid and bam. Super speeds and mass storage.

[R3Z3N]

I definitely don't want Reds, looking for more enterprise grade.

[kickinindian]

for replacements i would go with WD Reds awesome warranty service and made specially for NAS/RAID setups, they make them up to 6tb.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/nas/

[R3Z3N]

It's getting time for me to replace my 6 drive Raid 10 RAID array in my Gaming/File Server/VM station as it's been since 2011. Currently running 6 2TB Seagate Constellation drives setup as such:

___________Raid 0_________
| | |
Raid 1 + Raid 1 + Raid 1
2TB=2TB 2TB=2TB 2TB=2TB

Forum doesn't accept tabs or spaces :-(

Looking to replace all with 4TB or 6TB drives in the same config? What's are hot ticket HDDs currently that are close to enterprise grade? I haven't paid attention to non-ssd's since this build.