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prae5
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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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Geeba
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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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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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Geeba
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2010-11-03, 22:01
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-03, 22:07 by Geeba.)
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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alex84
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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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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.