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04-15-2011, 12:32 PM #1
hitachi 3tb drive?
Hitachi apparently has put out a really cost competitive 3tb drive now:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145493
5400rpm isn't fantastic of course, and I'd prefer a WD drive, but what can you do? It's only $140 each, for 3tb.
I'm considering using some of these drives for a client, who just needs the most space possible. Thinking of putting 6 of these into a software raid 5. There are very few writes to their system, and reads are streaming video and only about 100 megabit or less, so even these drives in a s/w raid 5 should be able to hold up, I would think.
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04-15-2011, 01:28 PM #2Junior Guru
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From the looks of it this is purely a drive geared towards storage. It has only 32MB of cache, 5400RPM. It's not something I would put into anything needing a lot of IO but might be something useful in a backup server (r1Soft/Rsync) or a home media server, or heck even something with 16-24 drives where IO can be spread out over more drives, then the ratio of space/speed will even out a bit more in comparison to a 7200RPM drive.
Your clients intended use should be fine as well since all the focus will be mainly on reads.
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04-16-2011, 10:06 AM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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I would be worried about the failure rate of these... Just because they hold 3tb and you will run 6 of these into a raid 5...
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04-16-2011, 12:50 PM #5Disabled
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i prefer oracle is always one of the best. as it provides every type of bandwidth
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04-16-2011, 04:40 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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No experience with them here, but just wanted to say "wow"...3TB at that price point. Seems would make for some good cheap backup storage.
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04-16-2011, 05:22 PM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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I think we are at the point in drive/price ratio that we need to seriously look at rebuild times. Doesn't seem like they have gotten any better with newer cards and faster drives...
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04-16-2011, 05:25 PM #9Aspiring Evangelist
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I tried to set up a raid6 + hot spare with 7 disks a few months ago. The result? A complete failure. 4 disks where gone within a few weeks. I don't have the time to worry about changing it regulary and so on, it was an home server. I used seagate green 2 tb hds buyed at about 80€ each. Maybe - and I do hope so - server grade disks that costs 3 times more are more reaible. No experience with that however.
Sorry if this is confused - Im not english and I wrote from my phone as fast as I couldLast edited by cedivad; 04-16-2011 at 05:30 PM.
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04-16-2011, 05:40 PM #10Junior Guru
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04-16-2011, 06:02 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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actually newegg sells WD20EARS 2TB green 5400rpm 64M buffer for $80 each. so, on per TB basis, it costs ~15% less than 3TB drive.
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04-17-2011, 03:51 PM #14
That's been a problem since the mid-nineties easily. For the future SSD is going to be what you use for performance and hard drives just for mass storage. Hopefully drives aren't failing so often that the rebuild time is a reason to pick a smaller drive instead of a larger one.
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04-19-2011, 02:31 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Depends on perspective. If you have a disk array chassis, you can increase its storage potential by 50% with 3TB drives vs. 2TB. So by virtue of NOT having to buy another array chassis, the 3TB disks are cheaper when you compare the cost to deliver the raw storage capcity.
IMO, the rebuild times on volumes in the 20+ TB range are going to be prohibitively slow, increasing the likelihood of a 2nd disk failure before the array returns to full integrity. (assuming garden variety SATA disks) Also consider the long performance hit during the rebuild.
I recently talked to a guy with a 27 TB array who said it took more than 3 weeks for a full rebuild after it lost a disk.Last edited by Sekweta; 04-19-2011 at 02:34 PM.
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04-19-2011, 03:52 PM #16Backup Guru
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Exactly. We tend to use the biggest drives available, even if they're a bit more expensive per GB, because the total cost is what's important. After factoring in the rest of the server components, plus the rack space and power, paying a premium for larger drives can actually save money overall.
It sounds like he may have had other problems. Our 16x2TB RAID6 arrays can rebuild in a day, so anything longer than a few days would seem unusual.Scott Burns, President
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04-19-2011, 04:15 PM #17Registered User
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Since these are so huge I assume you won't be able to back them up regularly and it'd be horrible if one of these died during a raid5 rebuild, I'd go with raid6 if at all possible.
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04-19-2011, 04:17 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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He said it was a busy array serving video content.
I've never lost a disk in an array (..knocks wood very loudly..) but if our monthly integrity checks are an indication of rebuild times, things look grim.
In a 12 disk chassis, we have a RAID 5 array built from 6 x 750GB 7200rpm, as 5 active disks and 1 hot spare. In that array we carved out a 1.5 TB volume, and it takes about 18 hours to run a full integrity verification on it.
What make/model array chassis are you running?
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04-19-2011, 06:08 PM #19Backup Guru
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Supermicro SC847, configured with 2 16-drive RAID6 volumes and a hot spare.
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