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HDD RAID Drive replacement - What drive
Current config
4 each 500 Gig Maxtor drives in a RAID 1-0
Drives are hosting Hyper-V images
Would like to replace the 4 drives with two 1 TB or larger drives now as a raid 1
and then add two more drives in the future to rebuild the raid as a 1-0.
I know It will be a complete data/raid rebuild for both steps
I am looking at the WD Black and the WD Red NAS drives
What would be the best drive to use, red or black?
Server has no more than 5 users hitting it at a time but hosts 4 Hyper-V guests
4 each 500 Gig Maxtor drives in a RAID 1-0
Drives are hosting Hyper-V images
Would like to replace the 4 drives with two 1 TB or larger drives now as a raid 1
and then add two more drives in the future to rebuild the raid as a 1-0.
I know It will be a complete data/raid rebuild for both steps
I am looking at the WD Black and the WD Red NAS drives
What would be the best drive to use, red or black?
Server has no more than 5 users hitting it at a time but hosts 4 Hyper-V guests
Server HardwareComponentsRAID
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kstech
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Not sure I need the Enterprise solution, although I like the idea.
The Maxtors have been in operation hosting vmWare machines for 5+ years under windows server 2003 and I just converted them all over to Hyper-V under Server 2012 Data Center. I figure if I can get another 5 years out of a set of Red's or Blacks I would be happy. Cost is a factor since this server spends about 60% of its life idle waiting on something to happen as it were.
The Maxtors have been in operation hosting vmWare machines for 5+ years under windows server 2003 and I just converted them all over to Hyper-V under Server 2012 Data Center. I figure if I can get another 5 years out of a set of Red's or Blacks I would be happy. Cost is a factor since this server spends about 60% of its life idle waiting on something to happen as it were.
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The black drives are the same price as the enterprise,so why not just get the enterprise?
A 1 TB black is around $100 bucks and an RE 1 TB is about the same.
A 1 TB black is around $100 bucks and an RE 1 TB is about the same.
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Will go with the Enterprise.
Thank you for the education on the differences.
Thank you for the education on the differences.
If you can't afford a SAS drive, then go to the WDC site and look at the SATA disks in the enterprise class and choose one of them. The extra few hundred dollars to protect your data is worth it.
The link to their enterprise class is here:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/enterprise/