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2x 2TB WD green in ReadyNAS Duo?
Is it compatible with this?
The closest Fry's to me is over three hours away (Atlanta). Four of my five Hitachis came from Newegg and one from Amazon. In each NVX I have the 2x3TB Hitachi (5400 RPM) and 2x1TB Seagates (7200 RPM). I have noticed no apparent slowdown in the file transfer rate since I replaced two of the Seagates (originally 4x1TB) in each unit. The fifth Hitachi is a spare, so far unused and still in it's sealed anti static bag. Keep in mind that even the SATA1 drive interface (1500 Mb/s) is faster than the gigabit network rate (1000 Mb/s) so I would not expect to see much impact.
The two 5400 RPM SATA3 (6Gb/s) Hitachis seem to coexist well with the 7200 RPM SATA2 (3Gb/s) Seagates. I will be honest that I had not checked the SMART logs and when I did, the Hitachis did have an LCC number, 10 on one and 13 on the other, both of which matched the power off retract count. This was NAS1, so I checked NAS2, my backup target. The Hitachi in bay 1 has an LCC number of 304 and the one in bay 2 is 298. Again, both numbers match perfectly the power off retract count. The drives in NAS2 are set to spin down after 90 minutes of inactivity, NAS1 is not set to spin down. Keep in mind that different manufacturers use some of the SMART registers for different things. I don't believe the Seagates for example use the LCC counter, as I have never had one show up on a Seagate.
The two Hitachis in NAS1 have almost reached the 4,000 hour mark while the two in NAS2 have almost reached 3,900. I put the two in NAS1 first and about 5 days later repeated the process with NAS2. They have been in service now for almost 6 months, whereas the Seagates have been in service for about 18 months and have around 11,000 hours on most of them. (Started with 8 with 2 spares which have been put in service. They have also been moved around a bit with 7 currently in three different boxes (3 moved into NAS3 a 4 1/2 year old NV+ after being replaced by the Hitachis in NAS1 and NAS2). The NV+ was going to be rehomed after I got the second NVX unit, but that didn't happen so I put it to use as a secondary backup. [One can never have too many backups].
The two 5400 RPM SATA3 (6Gb/s) Hitachis seem to coexist well with the 7200 RPM SATA2 (3Gb/s) Seagates. I will be honest that I had not checked the SMART logs and when I did, the Hitachis did have an LCC number, 10 on one and 13 on the other, both of which matched the power off retract count. This was NAS1, so I checked NAS2, my backup target. The Hitachi in bay 1 has an LCC number of 304 and the one in bay 2 is 298. Again, both numbers match perfectly the power off retract count. The drives in NAS2 are set to spin down after 90 minutes of inactivity, NAS1 is not set to spin down. Keep in mind that different manufacturers use some of the SMART registers for different things. I don't believe the Seagates for example use the LCC counter, as I have never had one show up on a Seagate.
The two Hitachis in NAS1 have almost reached the 4,000 hour mark while the two in NAS2 have almost reached 3,900. I put the two in NAS1 first and about 5 days later repeated the process with NAS2. They have been in service now for almost 6 months, whereas the Seagates have been in service for about 18 months and have around 11,000 hours on most of them. (Started with 8 with 2 spares which have been put in service. They have also been moved around a bit with 7 currently in three different boxes (3 moved into NAS3 a 4 1/2 year old NV+ after being replaced by the Hitachis in NAS1 and NAS2). The NV+ was going to be rehomed after I got the second NVX unit, but that didn't happen so I put it to use as a secondary backup. [One can never have too many backups].
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