Cheap 2.5 Drives

[79_Bronco]

Hello,

First time post here. I am looking at setting up a freenas box on one of my Dell 6100 Nodes.

I ended up going for the 2.5 inch 24 bay model of the c6100. Now I have decided I want to dedicate one of the 4 nodes to freenas what are some good drive selections for this purpose?

Plans for the freenas box are to backup esxi nodes, plex, maybe some iscsi targets for VM hard drives.

 

[HellDiverUK]

If you just want bulk storage without much speed, then the old Samsung M8 1TB is a good drive, as are the Hitachi/HGST 5K1000. The Samsung M9T 2TB is a 9.5mm drive too, but out of the 4 I had, one developed bad sectors very quickly.

 

[79_Bronco]

I was thinking about these. They are technically laptop drives though...

HGST Travelstar H2IK10003272SN (0S03563) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Retail Kit - Newegg.com

 

[Diavuno]

My home esxi box has 4 3.5 " nas drives, 4 2.5 sas and 4 2.5 notebook drives...

Have not had a failure yet, all about 4 years old.

 

[bds1904]

Have you considered getting drives from the following seller? There are a few of us that have gotten drives from goharddrive and been very pleased. Really top notch customer service.

New Ultra Fast 500GB 10000RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6 0Gb s Hard Drive Free Shipping | eBay

New 1TB 5400RPM 16MB Cache SATA III 7mm Height 2 5" Hard Drive Free Shipping | eBay

If you put in an offer on a few of the 500GB 10k RPM drives asking to skip the 2.5"-3.5" adapter I bet you could get a few bucks knocked off.