>>35775931 (OP)

it has a big dick

bump

anyone?

so no one has this?

the highest-capacity drives are always less reliable than slightly smaller ones, it has been this way since forever

if you can use 2 GB disks instead, do it

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>>35775944
i see what you did there.

>>35777123
but i have a lot of MKV files

I suggest buying retail packaged only drives.

I'd also throw out that HGST drives are better

>>35777171
raid 5 nigga

>>35777221
what?

>>35777171
Do you have space left only for 1 drive?
Do you need them all accessible without swapping drives?
Do you REALLY need to keep four fucking terabytes of chinese cartoons?

>>35777249
buy multiple small disks and raid them to more storage

raid 0 if you want speed and dont care if you lose everything
raid 5 if you want some build in protection against hw failure
raid 6 if you want more protection than raid 5

and dont use your motherboard's raid, it's shit. look up mdadm instead. it's linux only, but that should be okay, since you're running linux already (right?)

>>35777171
If you're storing files get Red drives not Blacks

>>35777327
>Linux for your raid
>Raid 6

Enjoy your write hole.

>>35777370
red don't go up to 4TB

>>35777280
>chinese cartoons
i don't watch chinese cartoons, these are for my blu ray and DVD rips

>>35777458
They go up to 3TB, which should be fine. They're way more reliable too, which is important in this application.

It's nice.

>>35777389
he'll be using a ups, as we all should be

>>35777563
Why not just use an OS and filesystem without write hole issues?

FreeBSD.

>>35775931 (OP)
It has five 800GB platters. If you can get the seagate 4TB drive cause it has four 1TB platters.

>>35777510
it says RED is for NAS systems, what is that?

>>35777676
Network Attached Storage

They're for storage servers

>>35777706
oh im not running a server

>>35777716
It's not like they won't work in your computer, they're more reliable drives and if you are using them for storage you want reliability

reds are just greens with different firmware.

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>>35777777
>>35777777
>>35777777

>>35777777
inb4 dubs

>>35777777

>horey shit

>>35777777
Ummm. h-haow?

>>35777777
worst get ever

>>35777777
Our saviour has arrived!

can anyone else confirm that reds are the most reliable, or that just his opinion?

>>35777777
True words from the wise hex get.

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>>35777777

>>35777845
>>35777777

horey shit

>>35777866
what?

>>35777777
I have a 1TB green drive with http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=609&sid=113&lang=en
Is there more I can do to extend the life of my drive?

http://www.behardware.com/articles/843-6/components-returns-rates-5.html

>>35777799
>>35777822
>>35777777
>>35777866
Check your privilege, anons

>>35777924
>- 1.57% Western Digital Caviar Green (WD10EARS)
>- 1.15% Samsung SpinPoint F3 (HD103SJ)

I have both of these drives.

>>35777777
But that's wrong

>>35777845
blues are superior for storage.
and avoid greens for anything.

>>35778009
Why?

Get reds plus they have good warranty.

>>35778024
greens fail like crazy

>>35778044

[citation needed]

>>35778044
Why?

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>>35777777
who /v/ here?

>>35777913
that thing that stops head parking? Not really any thing else you can do. Just keep an eye on the SMART data.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

this is interesting if you want to read it.

>>35778059
Well, I know for sure the 3tb greens fail like crazy. I also know the burden of proof is on me but learn to do your own research. I don't care if you buy a hard drive that shits itself after a month of use or is DOA.

>>35778195
no one is going to read all that shit

but >>35778044 this >>35777924 says other wise.

>>35777777
The number of completion.

>>35778227
b-but I d-did

>>35778195
I wish ihad taken a screen shot of the smart data I had from a trio of 500gb Greenpower drives, each with smart reporting 1.25 million head load cycles and no problems running 24x7 and for a bout 40k total power on hours before they were supplanted

>>35778166
gb2/b/.

WD RED for NAS
WD RE4 for your computer (DATA)
If you can afford it, Intel or Samsung Pro SSD for system data.

>>35778294

If you have a NAS, why the hell would you put a spinny disk in your computer?

>>35778310
More things should have spinny disks

>>35778310
virtual machines, for example. Without iSCSI without a very (very!) fast connection to the NAS, it will be painfully slow

In general, you work on the computer disk (audio, photoshop, etc) then you send it to the NAS.

>>35778363
[*] iSCSI without

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>>35777777
>>35777788
>>35777799
>3 in a row
>>35777822
>>35777866
>>35778044
>>35778166

it's habbening

>>35778363
i'm a network novice. how much better is iSCSI over something like plain ol' full-duplex gigabit ehernet?

so green or red? which is best?

>>35775931 (OP)
>Buying over 1TB
>Buying Black

>>35778745
Red, but Green isn't bad with firmware.
Red has great warranty.

>>35778745
Blue

>>35778808
>Red has great warranty

Keep in mind all harddrives are going to fail, the 3 year warranty on the reds keep you the safest.

>>35778651
iSCSI runs OVER ethernet, or another medium.

with iSCSI, you have a disk over the network. Not a shared folder. A disk (you must partition it, for example). Better performance.

With a NAS like a qnap, fo example, you can allocate part of the RAID to be a iSCSI disk (i.e. this "network disk" is not necessary a disk from the array, can be part of it

For a home setup, its more easy to have a fast, big disk on the computer for these tasks than a very fast connection to the NAS (more fast than Giga Ethernet).

>>35778967
Not him, but you are saying an OS would see this as a drive, not a folder? So you could literally plug it in over your NIC and it would pop up as a drive?

>>35778843

why blue

>>35779067
Yes. The disk admin from Windows (or another OS) see it as a physical disk

That's iSCSI.

>>35779062 →

>>35779462
Cool. I knew about mapping network folders to drives manually, but I didn't know there was such a thing as it just "being".

>>35777370

What's the difference between reds and blacks?

so only red come with a 3 year warranty, not green?

>>35779506
better performance than a shared folder, because you don't have layers of protocols to read/write data.

Obviously, one computer mapping the drive. But then, you can add storage to a server then share this storage to clients.

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>>35777777
>>35777777
>>35777777

>>35779508
blacks are for performance and have a five year warranty.

>>35779829
its still a 7200RPM drive

>>35779868
reds only have a three year

>>35777777
holy jackpotget

>>35779868
what color do u suggest?

>>35780508

If it ain't white it ain't right.

>>35780508
whatevers cheaper, everyone loves blues atm

>>35780627
but blue only comes in 1TB

Just get a WD Green and disable head-parking with WDIDLE3.

Or you can get Red if you want to waste your shekels.

>>35780729
have no idea what u just said

>>35780667
thats all you should be getting, past that the risk of platter failure goes up exponentially.

>>35780905
but i have so many MKV files

>>35780905
>failure goes up exponentially

not really

>>35779868
With 64mb cache dual processors and a motherfucking 5yr warranty.

>>35780924
>but i have so many MKV files
Why...

>>35780977
and what advantage does that give it over something like a velociraptor

>>35780987
cause i rip my DVDs

If you want a storage drive get a WD Green or 2 and remember to disable head parking.

This isn't difficult.

>>35781072
>disable head parking
what is that and u disable it?