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  What are the best SATA drives to buy for RAIDs at the moment?

  Posted by Marcus Lyall on May 29, 2012 at 7:09 pm

  Looking at buying 10 drives as first part of a 16 drive RAID.

  Probably 2tb drives. This seems to be the current sweet spot.
  But wondering what models people are using when building RAIDs at the moment.

  Drives are going to go in an Infortrend or Dothill chassis.
  We are going to use the RAID as direct attached storage for a Linux file server for a short while.
  Then repurpose the RAID to use as nearline storage.

  Any thoughts?

  Bob Zelin replied 13 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Bob Zelin

  May 30, 2012 at 12:50 am

  you only have 3 choices
  Western Digital
  Hitachi
  Seagate (Samsung division sold to Seagate).

  I use Hitachi – but you have to get what you can get.

  Why not ask Dot Hill what they recommend.

  Bob Zelin

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