>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Phil> On 11/16/2015 02:52 PM, John Stoffel wrote: >> So I like the 5 year warranttee on the blacks, but it does look like >> the REDs are the way to go. And I think I'll also go with splitting >> my data between seagate and WD and possibly Hitachi (I know, they've >> been bought by WD) to make a three way RAID 1 mirror across 4Tb >> drives. Yes, I'd get more room out of RAID5, but I'm not that silly, >> and I don't need to move to 4 x 4Tb in RAID6 either. Phil> Seagate was the brand that screwed me first with the Phil> industry-wide deletion of ERC support in desktop drives. Phil> Hitachi held onto it the longest. Whatever you consider, read Phil> the data sheets carefully to ensure they have ERC support. Phil> Google the model number along with 'linux-raid' and 'scterc' to Phil> see our past experiences with specific drives. Yeah, I'm hoping I can find the Hitachis at a good price, but right now it's looking like the WD REDs are the best price right now. I'm just leary of getting too many from the same vendor in case I get a bad batch. But it might be ok to get 2 x WD REDs and one of the Seagate NAS drives to do a triple mirror. And then wait before I do the pair of SSDs for lvmcache, though maybe just going with a pair of 64Gb ones would be enough for my needs. I really don't change all that many files a night. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
