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6TB MyBook Studio Edition II

lunchbox67lunchbox67 Member Posts: 132 ■■■■□□□□□□
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I have a Dell server I was allowed to take home from work. It is a couple years old but I am going to use it to run VMs for labs.

I was thinking instead of getting new internal drives for it I could pick up a 6TB MyBook Studio Edition II for the VM's. It has two drives and they can be mirrored

Anyone have a good reason to tell me this is aa bad idea?
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    nhan.ngnhan.ng Member Posts: 184
    read/write speed will be terrible. Unless you run 1 or 2 VMs at a time icon_lol.gif

    MyBook-Speed-tests.jpg

    Review: Western Digital MyBook 6TB Studio Edition II | 9 to 5 Mac


    also this
    i can report that ESXi does not like USB storage as a datastore. it was having none of that

    googling found that it is indeed not supported.

    so, i'm back to a single disk on the onboard controller, eventually migrating that datastore disk to a small 2port HBA to free up the onboard for vt-d to a VM.

    http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1037242348&postcount=14
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    lunchbox67lunchbox67 Member Posts: 132 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Ahhh, would throwing in a eSATA adapter card help with the throughput issues?
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    nhan.ngnhan.ng Member Posts: 184
    dont think eSATA is supported under VMDirectPath mate
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    lunchbox67lunchbox67 Member Posts: 132 ■■■■□□□□□□
    nhan.ng wrote: »
    dont think eSATA is supported under VMDirectPath mate

    Well, supported and able to work are often two different things. icon_wink.gif
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    nhan.ngnhan.ng Member Posts: 184
    test it and let me know icon_lol.gif
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    lunchbox67lunchbox67 Member Posts: 132 ■■■■□□□□□□
    nhan.ng wrote: »
    test it and let me know icon_lol.gif

    It works.
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    RobertKaucherRobertKaucher Member Posts: 4,299 ■■■■■■■■■■
    lunchbox67 wrote: »
    It works.

    How does it perform?
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    lunchbox67lunchbox67 Member Posts: 132 ■■■■□□□□□□
    RobertKaucher wrote: »
    How does it perform?

    Good enough so far.
    This is NOT going to to be put into a production environment.
    I am still converting so I have not used it much, ... but it does work.
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    exampasserexampasser Member Posts: 718 ■■■□□□□□□□
    I just looked up the price of a 6TB MyBook Studio Edition II, for a lot less (and improved performance) you could have just stuck some internal drives in the server. You could have gotten 3 2 TB WD20EARS green drives for about half of the price (note though that EARS type drives don't work well with older OSs and Linux distributions without some tweaking due being "advanced format" drives). The MyBook uses greendrives (most likely EARS type drives).
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