2.5" HD Suggestions

[T_Minus]

A handful of my chassis only support 2.5" HDs.


They're general use / web hosting servers. I like to make sure my HDs are either new, or barely used, so I prefer to not buy refurb or used for production usage.

Currently I have 20 NIB 300gb Velociraptors, and plan to use 12-15 and keep the rest for spares.

I'm looking for 750-1TB 2.5" that don't break the bank for "backup" drives in these nodes.

What model # / brand do you guys suggest? 2.5" is new to me for enterprise, I'm only used to using them in laptops.

They can be 5400rpm, or 7200rpm, but not 10krpm+ as they're for backup... so low power, and performance isn't a concern. Just cheap/affordable and reliable

I was looking at some WD Blue 750gb for $45 but I don't think BLUE is an appropriate drive for a server, even for backup --- someone tell me if I'm wrong here.

So, what 2.5" Spinners is everyone having luck with?

 

[markarr]

I have a raid 5 of 4 2.5" reds in our replication target host. Haven't had any issues with them. They are down to ~70 for the 1tb ones.

 

[T_Minus]

I have a raid 5 of 4 2.5" reds in our replication target host. Haven't had any issues with them. They are down to ~70 for the 1tb ones.

Any idea how many TB written and/or read to each drive so far?

 

[markarr]

Its behind a HP P410i, from what I can tell they average about 106865168837 sectors read and 34835198098 written with about 8974 hours on them. All 4 were put in the array at the same time.

 

[HellDiverUK]

Most of the servers at work have the 500GB Constellation.2 in them, and we've had zero issues. Both SATA and SAS versions. They're 7200rpm, 15mm drives. I have a pair here, and they're OK, one was DOA so was replaced by Seagate.