Bestbuy has 14tb external drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $190 now.
I got 8 across 3 orders this morning. I just saw that they've started limiting them to 1 per order. The most recent shucker said it was a WD140EMFZ, which is supposed to be 5400rpm 512mb cache.FYI, limited to 1 per customer.
If you can go into a brick & mortar, you can have someone in the store order multiple for you.FYI, limited to 1 per customer.
Looks like the 6 drives on dedicated ports on the HTPC are at 187 MB/s and only showing 9 hours left to go after about 10 hours. So the write pass may complete in less than 24 hours after all.I thought I had enough on one machine, but somehow it was a problem. On my home theater PC I have a Prime X470 Pro motherboard. I hooked up 6 drives to the rear ports. I have a USB hub hooked up to the internal motherboard USB port. I hooked up the last 2 drives to it. But they kept disconnecting somehow. I updated drivers and the BIOS, but it was no help. I did not try to open the machine to fix it. Instead I hooked up the last 2 drives to a desktop in my home office. They have been chugging along. Currently h2testw is at 9hr46mins with 20 hours left to go estimated at the current 124MB/s. The write speed started around 200MB/s but dropping steadily over time. Looks like this will be well over 48 hours for a full write and read pass.
8 drive Z2 will lose you some overhead I believe. I think 4, 6, 10 is the accepted number.Well, they did cancel one of my 3 orders. I picked up a total of 8 from 3 different stores.
I think the max might now be one per store. Which is moot since there is no longer one to be had within 250 miles, and BB won't allow any more orders to be placed even for shipping.
I just started running h2testw on all 8 drives, still in their USB enclosures. Looks like this will take over 48 hours to do one full write pass and verify pass. I will only shuck them after they pass verification. Then I'll know what kind of drives are inside ... Surprise. They don't seem exceedingly loud so far, at least not during sequential tests.
After that, I'll have to figure out how to migrate the data from the old array which is 6 x 10TB ZFS raidz2, onto 8 x 14TB ZFS raidz2.
The thing is, I don't have 14 SATA hotswap bays to plug them in all at once. I do have enough SATA ports to connect all drives.
I can fit 9 drives the way the case is currently setup, 10 if I move one hotswap bay from another case.
Perhaps I can fit 4 drives outside the case on the floor temporarily ... But my cats might interfere with the idea.
Or I can remove 2 parity drives from the existing array, and create the new array with 2 parity drives missing. Then I can get away with transferring all the data with just 10 drives hooked up. Then one big resilver when adding the "missing" parity disks. Fun weekend project ahead to be sure.
What kind of overhead do you mean ? Are you saying an 8 drive RAIDZ2 will be slower than 6 drive RAIDZ2 ?8 drive Z2 will lose you some overhead I believe. I think 4, 6, 10 is the accepted number.
Something about the stripe width and parity although not sure if still relevant these days8 drive Z2 will lose you some overhead I believe. I think 4, 6, 10 is the accepted number.