Seagate 2TB. It sure reminded me of why I avoid that company these days.
I'm going to beg, borrow and steal my way up to 8, in total, 2TB drives. The Z87-Pro has 8 SATA ports, so I'd might as well use them.
I take it they were just the cheapest? Shoulda just gone with WD reds or Hitachi drives, They aren't returnable?
The were very cheap - free in fact, from a friend :)
I think the problem was actually shipping. The drives arrived randomly distributed throughout the box, despite having been packaged carefully. It seems that these days the only safe way to ship is in a Pelican case! Thankfully the new motherboard survived the trip.
I agree with you. I'd prefer the WD REDs, or even the HGSTs, but at this stage any old working drive of 2TB will do. If I was running all 8, I'd run two in parity, so I'd still get 12TB and feel fairly safe that not more than 2 drives would fail at once.
What is the name of an emotion that describes frustration+fun?
Can't complain then.
Well whenever you want to expand WD greens are pretty cheap 2TB drives
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd20ezrx
There's also some hitachi drives for around 50 dollars, but those are from a random seller on amazon I believe.
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Please don't use WD Greens in a NAS build.
For future reference in case you get more remember that Seagate and Samsung are the same comapny.
But they're so cheap
I agree, however ZFS will provide better performance on a dedicated storage device (such as a FreeNAS box) due to the caching system in place (which is also why the need for ECC memory is necessary).