Spinning harddrives obsolete?

[codetrap]

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[The_Penguin]

I agree about Seagates being prone to failure. I've seen way too many fail.

Our non-enterprise (read budget) servers all use WD Reds and they've been great.
Reds are really just Greens with TLER turned on, so they're not the fastest, but with a decent RAID controller and BBU cache they're ok, and certainly cheaap. I have a nice RAID 10 array of them at home on a Kijiji Adaptec controller.
Our enterprise boxes have OEM certified SAS drives, fast, reliable, covered under 4 hour warranty plan, and priced like it.

I do not miss tape at all. I love recovering a client file in 10 seconds from disk-based backup. No more find the tape, load the tape, wait for it to find the file. Luckily we're not talking about 100s of TB, less then 10, or I might be singing a different tune.

[ryanallan]

Originally posted by V6-BoI
I think the only other drawback from an SSD is that it's not as robust. I'm sure the technology has improved a lot since it first came out, but I heard when SSDs first came out, it can get corrupted a lot quicker with too many memory writes.

Guess on that note, has anyone had issues with corrupt SSDs within a short period of time?

They're probably more reliable than HDDs now...

http://techreport.com/review/27909/t...heyre-all-dead

[ipeefreely]

Originally posted by eblend
... I would recommend you setup Storage Spaces...

A few of questions if you don't mind eblend...

Are you using ReFS?

I pretty sure dedupe is only 2012 R2... how much space are you saving in your VMs?

Did you get really poor performance before adding the SSDs?

Thanks!

[locust]

I've ran through about 20 3tb seagates that have gone bad out of about 100 seagate 3 tb drives.

For the western digital i've had a little bit more luck with less than 10 for the greens fail out of 100.

Anything red, blue, black should be good to go.

I've had a bunch of ssd get a bunch of corrupted bits in the past due to power outages.

[macman64]

Originally posted by firebane


SSDs do not do well in a RAID environment nor have any place in a large RAID array for storage or backup purposes.

Platter drives are still cheaper per gb than a SSD drive is.

I could put together a 6 drive RAID array for cheaper with platters than the equivalent in SSDs.

That isn't true SSDs absolutely have a place in large arrays. They are becoming common place in enterprise class storage arrays.