Been lurking for a while and was excited to start building my first NAS using my old gaming PC.
I’ve been keeping an eye out for storage deals (was originally leaning towards the refurb enterprise drives but I live in Canada and wasn’t sure about import fees etc) and I ended up buying 2 of the Seagate Expansion 14TB on sale (Best Buy) which someone confirmed are the 2x14 Mach.2 drives.
To keep it brief, to what degree are these dual actuator drives supported in UnRaid? Ive seen some comments regarding the sata vs SAS versions and how windows/linux sees them differently. And potentially being able to run some script on Linux to help partition them or something. Are the supposed speed benefits even possible in a nas/unraid setup?
Or am I just adding potentially more noise and heat for no reason?
The drives are final sale once I open the packaging (didn’t realize that at first) so I’m trying to determine if I made a mistake buying these or just go ahead with a pre clear/burn in etc.
PC specs for reference:
- i7 3770k
- Gigabyte Z77x-UD5H Mobo
- 32GB DDR3 Ram
- 2.5Gb Intel Nic (will upgrade to 10Gb pcie card soon)
Am considering buying a LSI SAS/SATA card as well if that makes a difference.
Any advice would be appreciated!