Iron Wolf

>>59531978
I doubt anyone here has one. When you can pick up 5TB's for $110, 10TB for $400 isn't a very good deal.

>>59532033
2 drives doubles the risk of one failing.

granted, If I raided 5'd them, i would get one 10tb and 2 5tb or whatever is cheapest to make 10tb

they're fine, what else are you going to get?

more like failgate amirite

Well right now I've got a total of 10TB capacity spread across 6 2TB drives in a raid-5. At the moment I've used like 8.4TB. so for a good archive investment the 10TB drive would be worth it. Just copy whole 10tb worth of data and put drive away for rainy day. Yes I've already got backups but this would be a 2nd copy. They make iron wolf in smaller capacity, 1/2/4/6/8/10TB versions.

You could get like 3 6tb. Raid 5 them and you'd get like 12tb.

Server in question is an old Opteron-170/4GB Ram WHS 2011 box. Has served me well since 2011 but like i said, it's hardware is old, drives almost full so it's time to replace it. Only things returning is the server OS (WHS 2011 is still plenty for my needs) and it's system drive.

>>59531978

at 10tb if you have a disk fail be it ZFS or Raid your looking at a 12+ day rebuild time to re-sync the drive during that time your array is going to be nearly inaccessible and your hammering the rest of the drives for that 12 days lowering their lifespan

>raid 5
>survives only 1 disk failure
Are you guys okay with that?
I've always opted for raid 6, even though my data is worthless.

Need to build an 8TB system,
wondering how to do it cheap.

>>59531978
I am planning on picking up two soon. I currently have 4x4tb drives. To handle 6 or more 4tb drives would probably cost me more than the extra price per GB, due to needing new case, motherboard for NAS, etc.