Stereodude
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I'm aware of that and didn't mean to give the impression that it could boot. I was simply speculating that the 3TB WD drive could be used under Win XP x64 without any issues despite it being unsupported by WD.
3TB HD from WD
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I didn't realize it was that far along that they were so hard to find. I looked up the 1.5TB drives on newegg and they're still in stock. I bought into those originally and I may have to stick with those for now. I'll probably buy several more of those since my storage demands aren't as high as yours right now. I was planning on buying into the 2TB drives at some point, but because of the potential for performance issues on a Perc card with 4K sectors, I'll stick with the smaller 1.5TB drives. I can fit 15 drives into my NAS which would give me 22.5TB of raw storage. I'll have to investigate what the next step is to get beyond the 4K issue with RAID cards at some point down the road.
ddrueding
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I'm ready to move forward with a 4x 3TB drive array for the house, as soon as I can find the drives. I'm also considering waiting until some company other than WD joins the party. Anyone have info on that?
Will you be using a software RAID array or hardware? I thought Seagate was the only other possibility once they start selling their drives individually vs in a retail USB enclosure.
Maybe it might work with Vail? I see this guide in adding larger drives, but I have to admit, I didn't read it completely through to see how much of a PITA it is (or isn't).
ddrueding
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Yup. Looks like WHS v2 (Vail) supports GPT directly, so that won't be a problem.
Yes I think I have seen it mentioned that vail will support really big drives, but I don't think it is GPT. Sounds more like they are developing another special type of partitioning system that won't be able to be read by anything else. It's not done so I have only been skimming vail news.
Stereodude
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Hardware and I'm REALLY, REALLY, REALLY PISSED right now!
I bought two HD203WI's from a vendor on ebay and they sent me two HD204UI's. :bibber:
Stereodude
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Sellers to properly represent their products.
wneddnce:I assumed you were, I meant the question towards David. That stinks about getting the wrong model drive. Did you contact them yet to see if they'll take them back?
Stereodude
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I sent them a note, they haven't replied yet. Another vendor is trying to do the same thing to me too
Saying they only have 1 HD203WI and want to give me the HD204UI. I told them no way.I'm pretty convinced there's no way I'm going to end up with the number of these I want. :???:
What do you think would be involved with hacking the firmware in a Perc 6i so that partition alignment was a feature to fix the issue with 4K drives? If that was a feature, would you be less reluctant in getting the newer 2 TB drives with 4k sectors?
Also, how bad will it really be? I was googling Perc 6i and 4K sectors and in that huge thread on overclock.net one guy (granted this is only one person) said they haven't noticed any issues with a 4k drive on a perc.
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Just ordered three from futurepowerpc (the only company that had them in stock and no ordering limit) and one from Newegg with a 3Ware 9650SE RAID card. We'll take a look at compatibility issues when it gets here.
Stereodude
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HDtune isn't going to show much of anything. IOmeter and latency tests would show the performance issues.
However, previously I read over there that people were having issues with the 4k drives on HW raid cards though no one ever really got into details.
Of course now I've got an unknown quantity of new HD203WI's (up to 7 total) so moving to HD204UI's would be troublesome since I'd have to unload the HD203WI's. I have another HD203WI in a USB / SATA enclosure and my Dad has one in the PC I built him. I could replace the HD203WI in his system and the one in my SATA enclosure with an aligned HD204UI and have my 9 (8 + 1 spare) (assuming the remaining HW203WI's I have on order all show up and are HD203WI's not HD204UI's).
I'm debating ordering a few of the HD204UI 4K drives and connecting them up to my second Perc 6i to run some tests to see how bad they really are, but I don't have an equivalent to compare them to. My point being, even if I got some numbers after running tests with IOmeter, I wouldn't know what it's relative to. I think it could be a useful thing to spread around and either confirm or rebuff a problem with specific hardware raid cards like the Perc 6i and performance issues.
If you get to a point where you need to sell some of the drives, maybe I can help you out if you want to sell some of them? I am planning on getting at least three more of the 1.5 TB drives to move my 1.5 x 5 to a 1.5 x 8 and rebuild the array. Then I can move to a 2 TB drive of up to 8 more.
If you get to a point where you need to sell some of the drives, maybe I can help you out if you want to sell some of them? I am planning on getting at least three more of the 1.5 TB drives to move my 1.5 x 5 to a 1.5 x 8 and rebuild the array. Then I can move to a 2 TB drive of up to 8 more.
ddrueding
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Really? Got details on that?
I sent them a note, they haven't replied yet. Another vendor is trying to do the same thing to me too
I'm pretty convinced there's no way I'm going to end up with the number of these I want. :???:
Newegg has a few in stock.
Newegg has a few in stock.
Wow, that really is surprising!
ddrueding
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My 3TB drive from the Egg arrived this morning. Packaging was awesome. Waiting for the other 3 to arrive from somewhere else.
Stereodude
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I believe I'm good now.
Order away... I think I have enough now. I still only have 1 in my hands so I can't say for sure. Most are in transit. One way or another I will get my 9 drives (8 + spare).
FWIW, Tigerdirect has 'em in stock too for $119.99 each and shipping is pretty cheap (<$7 for 3 drives in my case).
Stereodude
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I've got 9 of those already (8 in the RAID-6 array + a spare). I don't know what I'd do with more, although I suppose I could have built another identical array instead of using the 2.0GB F3's. :cyclops:
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
I fixed it!If anything I want more WD ASS drives.
WD has been good for me. Much better than the DOA or dying Seagates and somewhat better than the one out of five Samsungs that have bad sectors from the start.
ddrueding
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Kinda. I'm going to two computers, each with a RAID-0 of 2, with some kind of replication between them.