To preface, this is for Home Media Storage. Nothing mission critical here.
With WD scrambling to save face over the SMR/CMR debacle, is it worth assuming that if purchasing the NEW WD Red Plus that seem to screaming CMR from the rooftops and dropping prices, that I will get a bit more for my money than simply buying the tried and true (for me anyway) corresponding CMR Seagate Models ?
The 2 candidates: WD 4TB SATA WD40EFZX (Red+, CMR, 128MB, 5400RPM) or Seagate 4TB SATA ST4000VN008 (IronWolf, CMR, 64MB, 5900RPM).
thanks.
Allan
TL/DR:
I am a caveman and still run (SAS2108) HW RAID5 per array. I always purchase at least 1 batch matched cold spare. I also don't mix/match drives, so when the 'spare' is deployed (depending on lifetime), it's time to shop for a new array, then sort leftovers for re-use elsewhere once replaced. This seems to have worked for me, so I will continue.
My current drives are all Seagate, including 10+yr old 2TB SAS Constellations, 7yr old 3TB SATA Constellations and 2yr old 3TB IronWolfs. Oddly enough, it's the 3TB SATA Constellations that I will be replacing, as the older 2TB SAS Models don't seem to want to die and I still have a cold spare for that array.
I like small drives/arrays. Once I make the move to ZFS and HBAs, I will deploy an array larger than 20+TB....lol
With WD scrambling to save face over the SMR/CMR debacle, is it worth assuming that if purchasing the NEW WD Red Plus that seem to screaming CMR from the rooftops and dropping prices, that I will get a bit more for my money than simply buying the tried and true (for me anyway) corresponding CMR Seagate Models ?
The 2 candidates: WD 4TB SATA WD40EFZX (Red+, CMR, 128MB, 5400RPM) or Seagate 4TB SATA ST4000VN008 (IronWolf, CMR, 64MB, 5900RPM).
thanks.
Allan
TL/DR:
I am a caveman and still run (SAS2108) HW RAID5 per array. I always purchase at least 1 batch matched cold spare. I also don't mix/match drives, so when the 'spare' is deployed (depending on lifetime), it's time to shop for a new array, then sort leftovers for re-use elsewhere once replaced. This seems to have worked for me, so I will continue.
My current drives are all Seagate, including 10+yr old 2TB SAS Constellations, 7yr old 3TB SATA Constellations and 2yr old 3TB IronWolfs. Oddly enough, it's the 3TB SATA Constellations that I will be replacing, as the older 2TB SAS Models don't seem to want to die and I still have a cold spare for that array.
I like small drives/arrays. Once I make the move to ZFS and HBAs, I will deploy an array larger than 20+TB....lol