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4TB disks on ReadyNas Ultra 6?
I just bought a ReadyNAS ULTRA 6 for a great price of less than USD 600,- including a 2TB Seagate disk. Waste of space with only 1 x 2TB, so need to get some new disks... The plan was to fill it up w...
Having just picked up a readynas ultra 6 (cheap) I looking at what disks to put in it.
I was thinking of putting in 6 X ST4000VN000 but Im not in the USA and they are not as cheap here as they are there (and If I was buying one I might ship it - but 6 - I ddint think so)....
Im curious about the statement above "with an array that large, it would not be unexpected for an error to appear on one of the other drives during the rebuild." These are NAS drives with better warranties here (and more costly). is this just talking about an rare or hypothetical risk - are we talking about a real risk (also I actually bought two of the ReadyNAS Ultra 6's because they were so cheap so my plan is eventually have the second one up and running as well so any really critical data I can synch across both. Still if Errors are common(ish) then I will definitely go raid 6. - Does anyone have an idea about how long the rebuild would take (hours ? days ? weeks ? - hopefully not months ?) has anyone found the NAS Drives noticeably more reliable than the Desktop drives.... (my choice would seem to the desk top drives which I can get quite cheaply at the moment, the NAS Drives which would cost me substantially more or the Hitachi 4 TB which is certified but cost over double the Seagate NAS drive ). So I just wondered what people's experiences and any additional thoughts were with 4TB drives in the Ultra 6 (good or bad) before I went out and bought 6 of them....
I was thinking of putting in 6 X ST4000VN000 but Im not in the USA and they are not as cheap here as they are there (and If I was buying one I might ship it - but 6 - I ddint think so)....
Im curious about the statement above "with an array that large, it would not be unexpected for an error to appear on one of the other drives during the rebuild." These are NAS drives with better warranties here (and more costly). is this just talking about an rare or hypothetical risk - are we talking about a real risk (also I actually bought two of the ReadyNAS Ultra 6's because they were so cheap so my plan is eventually have the second one up and running as well so any really critical data I can synch across both. Still if Errors are common(ish) then I will definitely go raid 6. - Does anyone have an idea about how long the rebuild would take (hours ? days ? weeks ? - hopefully not months ?) has anyone found the NAS Drives noticeably more reliable than the Desktop drives.... (my choice would seem to the desk top drives which I can get quite cheaply at the moment, the NAS Drives which would cost me substantially more or the Hitachi 4 TB which is certified but cost over double the Seagate NAS drive ). So I just wondered what people's experiences and any additional thoughts were with 4TB drives in the Ultra 6 (good or bad) before I went out and bought 6 of them....
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