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Locutus494
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2015/08/04 02:32:49 (permalink)
I have a four year old Digital Storm system with 2x 2TB Western Digital Black Edition (model WD2002FAEX) hard drives in a RAID 0 configuration as my data storage volume. One of the drives failed and I'm looking for a replacement.

I'm looking at 6TB Seagate models, but I want to know if I should go with a consumer or enterprise drive. From what I understand, enterprise drives should be more reliable and have better warranties, but are there other advantages? Are there any disadvantages? Speed or performance? The two exact ones I'm looking at are model STBD6000100 (consumer) and ST6000NM0024 (enterprise). The enterprise one is only $50 more, so it seems worth it to me. I'll be buying two to make a RAID 0 volume.

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    Re: Consumer vs. enterprise HDDs 2015/08/04 02:51:33 (permalink)
    its a nice system if it works don't mess with it. IMO I would get a good Blu-ray Burner. Stack of 50gb disks and 3.0 usb burner was under a hundred bucks. Or add to and do the slow switch. my 2 cent.


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    Re: Consumer vs. enterprise HDDs 2015/08/04 05:15:54 (permalink)
    Personally I would not at all recommend running raid zero on 6TB drives yet. For reason they can be a bit wonky. The amount of storage is amazing though! I am running 12 of the WD 6tb reds in a raid 10 enviorment. Just be sure that anything you keep on them is not data critical. Always go enterprise if you can. 


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    Re: Consumer vs. enterprise HDDs 2015/08/18 09:38:45 (permalink)
    I would just run the two 6TB in RAID 1 or if you need the space JBOD, that way if they die you won't loss all of your data.
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