[ale] Which large capacity drives are you having the best luck with?

[Jim Kinney]

Raid 5,6 is a waste of time. When one fails a second failure is likely
before recovery can finish. Raid 10, thanks to cheap drives, is the best
bet. If you're totally paranoid, do the mirror in triplets.
On Dec 21, 2010 10:43 PM, "Matty" <matty91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to play around with openfiler and freenas over Xmas, and I've
> been reading tons of 1.5TB and 2TB disk drive reviews tonight. From
> what I've gathered so far, the reliability of large capacity drives
> sucks and you need to factor this in when picking your RAID levels
> (I'm going with RAID6). Amazon currently has 1.5TB drives for $60:
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZCXJZE?ie=UTF8&tag=tp6708-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002ZCXJZE
"
>
> So I'm thinking about picking up a few of these for my project. Anyone
> have any thoughts on these drives or any of the other 1.5TB - 2TB
> drive manufacturers? Trying to find something that performs reasonably
> well and is relatively reliable.
>
> Thanks for any feedback,
> - Ryan
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