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| Thread ID: 113147 | 2010-10-07 03:16:00 | Best brand for 2tb drive | nedkelly (9059) | Press F1 |
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| 1142315 | 2010-10-07 03:16:00 | I am still slowly going on my freenas box and thought it might be a good idea to look at the hard drives so I know what to buy when I get money. So what brand and model are the best to get from PB? |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1142316 | 2010-10-07 03:17:00 | Spinpoint F3! (sp) | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1142317 | 2010-10-07 05:46:00 | Get yourself the WD My Book Essentials, and get 2x 1.5TB drives for the similar sort of price as 1x 2TB. RAID them in RAID-1 or something, with that much data, it's a mission to back up. I've got 5TB and now I'm just going through the process of buying additional drives to either RAID or rsync nightly. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1142318 | 2010-10-07 06:34:00 | WD | pctek (84) | ||
| 1142319 | 2010-10-07 07:43:00 | Chill: Um is that not an external drive? pctek: Thanks I thought so, thanks for backing up that opinion. I am slowly thinking about maybe not getting 2tb drives to save me some money. Maybe 1tb or 1.5tbs. Oh also what would be the best SATA raid card that can support RAID5? |
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| 1142320 | 2010-10-07 08:36:00 | It is, but does your file server have gigabit ethernet? Coz for most they only run at 100mbit yet usb is 480. Do you want raid or do you want it to just sync between drives nightly? If you just sync nightly then it means you can easily pull the drive out and put it into any machine. :pf1mobmini: |
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| 1142321 | 2010-10-07 09:10:00 | Well I am hoping to setup RAID5, so which raid card would be the best to get? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1142322 | 2010-10-07 09:25:00 | You're using FreeNAS, and so most people here will likely have absolutely no idea what cards are supported by BSD and what aren't. Besides, if I remember rightly, you can do software RAID. However, there is merit in doing nightly sync's. With software RAID, you potentially can't just pull the drive out and plug it in elsewhere, hence why I suggested just nightly syncing. I've just done what you're looking at doing, so just sharing what I discovered. I actually looked at WHS but it didn't look totally suitable for a variety of reasons. I must say though it *did* have just on 100 updates to install on first boot :D |
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| 1142323 | 2010-10-07 09:52:00 | So what are you using? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1142324 | 2010-10-07 21:13:00 | The Newegg reviews seem to suggest that the Samsung drives are the most reliable | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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