Only 3.7TB left on my 18.1TB RAID6 volume. Could do with the price of 4TB drives plummeting and replacing mine.
Considering you shouldn't put Green drives in NAS units because they tend to try and and spin down when they shouldn't. Most NAS companies like QNAP don't even recommend some of the WD drives let alone Green drives.
Not all, I had a very noisy WD Black 2.5", which sounds a lot more than a very quiet WD Green EARS/EARX.
Don't all WD Non-enterprise drives fail RAID due to their deep cycle recovery? That's how it used to be with the blacks dunno if they switched policies or not.
I don't use WD in any NAS environments. Just had too many problems with them over the years. It's really only the Greens, or any Eco drive for that matter that you shouldn't put in RAID. Most of the time though I find Enterprise drives make no real difference other than gouging your wallet. Mechanical drives all can fail at some random point.
Exactly. I've stopped paying for them because the extra price I don't think is worth it. It they're going to fail it will be within the Warranty time-frame anyway. Better to just have another cheap drive to whack in.
Only got WD Green and Spinpoint drives in my array, only had one failure, no problems other than that in the last few years I avoid mentioning they are in a RAID array when i log a warranty call though, worried they would refuse it!
Ah, ah I just bought some 2TB drives for raid1 on my main rig and already using 700GB for just games... I thought it was excessive! I guess not. 5TB drives sound nice. Now only if they had 1TB SSD.(reasonable cost)
I don't understand why people (not companies) need so much storage. I have only 500 GB on my primary drive and 250 GB on my backups and storage drive. I can't even fill these up more than half way. If I want to watch episodes of something I'll stream it. If I want to watch a movie I'll stream it or pop in a DVD. If I don't play a game I'll uninstall it. Now, 5 TB? That's just insane to me. I don't know what I'd do with all that.
Streaming video quality is still miles away from being good enough for any serious cinephile. I have Netflix and while it's "ok" for some things, I would never use it to watch a film (the PS3 app doesn't do framerate detection for example, forcing all content to be output at 60Hz) Using discs is cumbersome and quite passé as far as I'm concerned. Having all your media stored locally on your network which can then be streamed throughout your household via mediastreamers/HTPC's with nice onscreen libraries is how it should be at this time and age. I still watch the occasional bluray disc if I haven't the time to rip it, but DVD's are completely dead to me. Tl;dr: HD content takes up a lot of room which is why large HDD arrays are necessary for me.
^ this. If you arent into HD audio/video (or major backups), I doubt you will see the need for large drives
Nice and useful setup there john. I tought that with 600 movies in my current HD´s was to much! Been reading a lot to try to change my config, currently have singles TB HD filled with ripped movies, but not RAID or even backup of those, that's why I need a new set up for my storage...
I don't think it's so much a problem on their end accepting it. As because they're Green drives they want to spin down when they shouldn't. Which in say a RAID1 probably isn't an issue, but if you're moving up in the RAID's it's not an ideal place if one of them is trying to spin down all the time. That's why it's always recommended to avoid Green drives in general.
Do they really spin down or is the headparks the problem? I just ordered another 2TB so personally I'm all for more space, but I'll stick to max 3 platters @ 5400rpm.
I think it's both. I think they park the heads after a short period of time, and I think they tend to spin down more than they should to save power, because that's what they're designed for really. Which is fine in most circumstances but in a NAS you don't want hard drives doing their own thing. And I think the WDs would do it's own thing regardless. Where other hard drives will at least accept commands to say. Don't spin down etc.
If your doing 1:1 (no compression) rips of blu-rays, you're looking at alot of space. Depending on the movie itself and how long it is, each file can be like 25GB or more in size. I just ripped The Dark Knight Rises yesterday and that movie was just shy of 37GB in size. But I'm in agreement when John said that DVDs are dead to him. I don't even bother with them anymore.