Drives for HW RAID?

[rmd3003]

I have LSI 9260-8i and planning on running RAID6 or RAID50 with 10-12 drives. Will my card support 3TB drives? Is it wise to go with 3TB at all? If not, should I go with proven old 7K2000 Hitachis or go for new 7K300 (unproven)? What about Samsungs 2TB (advanced format)? Do they play nicely? Aaaa, so many questions.

Thank you.

 

[nitrobass24]

Your card will support 3TB, but they are not cost effective to purchase.
What is the array going to be used for? If its long-term archival for movies and such i would look at the 5k3000. They run cooler and have higher sequential speeds then the 7k2000.

 

[rmd3003]

Hmm, aren't 5K3000 advanced format drives?

 

[nitrobass24]

No they use 512byte Sectors

 

[leagle]

No they use 512byte Sectors

That's one of the reasons I am buying 5K3000s instead of the Samsung HD204UIs. Almost all of my other production hard drives are Samsungs. Right now, Hitachi and Samsung are all that I would buy.

 

[rmd3003]

Well, I decided to go with 7K3000 3TB drives. And let me tell you they are flying in RAID5 on this card. Just perfect.