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Disk Reliability Trade-Offs?
I just ordered a diskless ReadyNAS 314 from Amazon. The plan is to implement a RAID 10. Since I have had a terrible experience with the disks, I am researching this aspect very carefully. My 3 t...
One, work with the HCL
Two If you can stand the price shock, go with enterprise drives
Three I stay away from the super high capacity drives until they have been around and have developed some real world reliability statistics.
4-6gb drives are too big for me to try.
That being said, I went with WD Red 2gb drives. They on the HCL, have a decent rep, Not too expensive. Buy an extra as an on hand spare.
I am running RAID 6
In my NV+ I ran enterprise class 1tb drives. over 5 years had no failures.
Back up your NAS, all drives fail.
Two If you can stand the price shock, go with enterprise drives
Three I stay away from the super high capacity drives until they have been around and have developed some real world reliability statistics.
4-6gb drives are too big for me to try.
That being said, I went with WD Red 2gb drives. They on the HCL, have a decent rep, Not too expensive. Buy an extra as an on hand spare.
I am running RAID 6
In my NV+ I ran enterprise class 1tb drives. over 5 years had no failures.
Back up your NAS, all drives fail.
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