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R5 - raid5 of 8x wd20eads currently with about 8TB of data ZFSR2(Rinzler) - zfsr2 of 2TB disks named Rinzler made from empty spare disks ZFSR2(Cora) - zfsr2 of 2TB disks with vertex2 60gb cache named Cora made from original raid5 sorry for the confusion

My requirements for this build, first to last Security of data(ZFSR2) SMB for XBMC and inter network transfers AFP for TimeMachine Current hw setup: R5wData in W7U Boot vertex2 3.2 dual core intel 4gb 1066 ram R5=8xWD20EADS future ZFS server(from spare parts) SUPERMICRO...

I can confirm this, I had to go out of my way to get WD20EADS because you can change the TLER and IDLE settings on these consumer drives and saved hundreds by doing so. Sold my WD20EARS because they were dropping out of hardware raid to a friend who put them in FreeNAS (no issues yet). I...

I'm at a similar crossroads. Currently my data resides on a windows server since at the time built it had the best SMB speeds. I only compared it to FreeNAS 7.3. I have a second box I am trying to decide what to run on, currently running FreeNAS 8.0.3 with a ZFSR2 and I'm getting SMART...

It's not usable in the same method that I was using the WD20EADS. These drives arent made anymore, they allowed you to turn on TLER and to disable the WDIDLE feature for use in a RAID setup. To get these features today you have to spend the extra dough for the raid edition drives. They also...

I had to RMA a WD20EADS that dropped out of my RAID5. Its manufacture date was Aug 2010. Just got word my replacement is a WD25EZRX I know I cant use it in my raid array and my cold spare is already in there so I dont have another backup spare. What are your opinions on this drive? How...

Which one is better for me? I have a P5Q-PT,P5N-VM and a SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SBL-LN2. The two cards in question are: Compare View USB3 I already have a few USB3 devices that I've sadly only been using at USB2 speeds.

Has anyone enabled TLER on Western Digital WDBAAY0020HNC drives? I've heard they are the same as the WD20EADS, can anyone confirm this? Does anyone know the cutoff manufacture date for when Western Digital disabled the ability for us to enable TLER on the WD20EADS?

I see now they are on sale for 60$ after MIR on the egg. Limit 1 per customer :(

Do you know what firmware you have, is it 1.28? Its easy to check you can use OCZ ToolBox to check without even rebooting or installing anything

Does anyone have a single Vertex2 60GB drive formated in Windows7? I just bought one and I have firmware 1.28, a reported 55GB capacity using OCZToolbox and a lousy 51.24GB usable. Is this right or should I RMA? Posted via Mobile Device

Thanks everybody, this is a lot of good information! I just wanted to add that I was mistaken at how expensive the raid edition drives really are from before, they are upwards from 250$ a pop, i must have been looking at something else during my earlier post. I'm going to do some more research...

Hey, I'm looking to do the same, just on a smaller scale but eventually expanding to 16x 2TB drives in a antec 1200 case.. Danny is right about picking the right drives if you are going to do RAID. I can't find any drives i like, WDC are adopting a M$ attitude with their drives now forcing you...

What I want to do is make a RAID5 set of 8x 2TB [DRIVES]. I see that many of the 2TB drives today are around 80$, and their corporate edition (raid edition) are twice that. I can't afford 8x$160 drives so what are my options? I just picked up a ROCKETRAID 2680 for cheap but when browsing...

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