Does anyone actually own a seagate 6TB STBD6000100?

[Carson Dyle]

Time flies. I replaced my drives with 6TB drives and have 27TB of disk space. Unfortunately I'm down to 4TB free and that will pretty much be gone by the end of the year. I doubt we'll see a LSI 9361-16i 16 port RAID card by then or at this point ever. Chances are I'll go adaptec unless anyone has any strong recommendations about a different card you'd recommend that will be available within the next few months. I'll be putting 12 6TB drives in my next system for about 60TB of useable disk space.

Expander, or... build yourself a dedicated network file server with a motherboard that can take multiple PCIe cards.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Back to topic - I'm looking at these wondering about using them as a cost effective storage storage solution in a new backup/DR server that's needing to mirror my main NAS with 11 2TB RED's.

http://www.microcenter.com/product/...ATA_60Gb-s_35_Internal_Hard_Drive_STBD6000100

At $50 per TB, it's certainly not the most cost effective solution at the moment. Right now, 3TB drives are the most cost effective drives in terms of cost per terrabyte. A 3TB WD Green for $105 is only about $35 per TB, and I've seen them, as well as the Toshiba 3TB drives for as little as $95. The WD 4TB Green drive has been available recently for $140, also $35 per TB.

If you're considering WD Reds, the 3TB Red has been available off and on (including earlier today) for $110 from Amazon. If you want a 7200 RPM NAS drive, I'd go with the HGST Deskstar NAS line. They're just a little more expensive than the WD Reds. Currently, the 6TB model is the same $300 price as that Seagate desktop drive.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O0M5QK8

 

[boed]

Hello,

I've looked at the intel expanders. I was told by LSI they would slow down the performance.

I couldn't say what is right consumer or enterprise for your needs. It does cost $120 more for the enterprise drives (just ordered a spare). The enterprise do give you a better warranty I believe -but since I haven't tried the consumer ones I couldn't compare the speed.

 

[boed]

Expander, or... build yourself a dedicated network file server with a motherboard that can take multiple PCIe cards.

At this point, I'll probably get the adaptec but put a 80mm fan on the card. I've put 1 more 6TB drive in my current array so I have 32TB of space to hold me over a little longer in the hopes LSI decides to make a comparable card in the 16i or 24i variety.