[NAS] Samsung EcoGreen F4 vs. WD Caviar Green WD20EARS
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I am looking for a new 2TB harddrive for my Windows Home Server. The harddrive should be energy efficient, silent and fast enough to stream my 1080 HD movies.

I just saw at my local hardware dealer these two harddrives:
Samsung EcoGreen F4 HD204UI 2000GB SATA-II NCQ 32MB
http://www.schwanthaler-computer.de/PC-K...21855.html
Cost: 77,80€

Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2000GB SATAII 64MB
http://www.schwanthaler-computer.de/PC-K...20569.html

Cost: 86,80€

Which one would you recommand me? (sorry for the German linkBig Grin)
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Harry deluxe Wrote:I am looking for a new 2TB harddrive for my Windows Home Server. The harddrive should be energy efficient, silent and fast enough to stream my 1080 HD movies.

I just saw at my local hardware dealer these two harddrives:
Samsung EcoGreen F4 HD204UI 2000GB SATA-II NCQ 32MB
http://www.schwanthaler-computer.de/PC-K...21855.html
Cost: 77,80€

Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2000GB SATAII 64MB
http://www.schwanthaler-computer.de/PC-K...20569.html

Cost: 86,80€

Which one would you recommand me? (sorry for the German linkBig Grin)

I dont know exactly what type of harware you are going to run them on. What i do know is if you are running some type of raid with the power saving "GREEN" line you will evantualy run into trouble. Try a single google search on "wd green +raid" and you will see alot of people scratching there eyes out...

Just a tip mate, go with regular drives and if u got the $ go for raid drives.
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#3
Samsung one - have used the eco drive's for a long time in all of my nas's.

Current nas has about 16 1.5tb eco drives in, and will be migrating some of these to 2tb drives in the near future.
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#4
WHS??!! V1?

NEITHER!! - they both use/have 4k clustering!

The Seagate 2TB drives dont use it or buy 3 x 1.5TB drives which is cheaper.. gives you more storage and easier to pull one out of the pool in the event of a failure...

I've just been down the same path for my WHS.
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#5
I vote for WD Greens as they have a way to jumper them to not be 4k. Also I hate how Samsung drives report incorrect temps....

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#6
Microsoft as well as numerous forum member on the WHS forums recomend avoiding these drives irespective of hardware jumpers or emulated 4K clusters on version 1 home servers, some people have used them and been fine.. others have reported problems instantly.

Vail is fine... but I cant imagine you are using this yet for storage as its not even RC yet.

Personally I find 2TB of data to much to take a gamble on.

3 x 1.5TB drives is cheaper, and they have no cluster issues. £150
2 x 2TB possible cluster issues £160
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Eighter way what you decide to use for you system, search and try to find al the info you can get on that harddrive in simular contitions. Someone has probably been down the road you are heading and can give you advise, that can prove save you cash and time. Also take in consideration that if your raid/file/nas server crash to an unrepair array and all your data is lost, how mutch is that worth for you? Some people gladly save 50$ or whatever for the cheapest drive. But when everthing is running smothly and you put all you family photos, movies, music and backup the shit crashes.... I have been there, and im not doing that again 4 sure.

Plan wize and google alot mate.
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poofyhairguy Wrote:I vote for WD Greens as they have a way to jumper them to not be 4k.

or try to find WD20EADS. I am guessing deals like this will become more commonplace as 3TB drives become more available:

http://dealnews.com/Western-Digital-Gree...99583.html
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#9
Many thanks for your replies. Didn't expect that it will be that difficult but it looks like i have to conduct a bit more researchSad
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#10
Don't forget to check out the ratings and feedback over at newegg

HD204UI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...pk=HD204UI

WD20EARS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...k=WD20EARS
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#11
Yep and dont forget to check out Microsoft and WHS sites...

http://www.homeserverland.com/whs/f/14/p...10009.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2385637/en-us

Recommendation Windows Home Server v1: Do not use Advanced Format disks in your Windows Home Server v1. <-- from Microsoft

http://www.wegotserved.com/ is another good site.

Rather than people just keep suggesting drives that could technically TOAST your data.. Wink
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#12
jvdb Wrote:or try to find WD20EADS.

Be careful with those. I got one recently and it was 4k too. Needed the jumper.

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#13
Interesting topic Big Grin I am planning to add more storage to my FreeNAS and am trying to find the best 2TB drive. I have heard mixed reviews about both of these drives and am trying to do research to find the best option!

The WD20EARS is currently $69.99 AR FS from Newegg using a promo code.

The Samsung F4 has also been on great sales lately.

As I stated above, I will be using 4 of the drives in a RAIDZ configuration in my FreeNAS. I am just trying to find the best available for my use Wink
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#14
The Samsung F4's have a serious firmware problem which causes them to silently corrupt date under certain circumstances. Although it has been corrected with newer drives, there's no way of telling since both new and original firmware have the same revision number in an attempt from Samsung to cover it up.

I would go with he WD just have my mind at ease.
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poofyhairguy Wrote:Be careful with those. I got one recently and it was 4k too. Needed the jumper.


Can you elaborate on the jumper settings for the WD 2TB green drives? I have 3 of them in my WHS, haven't set any jumpers... but getting transfer speed performance issues... perhaps this is the culprit.

Ogi
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