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HDD recommendations for Readynas NV+ v1
I currently have two 1TB Seagate drives (ST31000322CS) which have been in use for 5 years (spin down when not active) and I think are in good health (see below), but I'm running low on space - 192GB f...
Hi Stephen, thanks for the reply.
Think I'm running the latest FW (RAIDiator 4.1.13 [1.00a043]) - I was more interested in HCL because of not wanting any weird compatibility problems.
WD10EFRX looks like the sensible option - it's actually on the HCL - and I had forgotten that x-raid meant adding more discs with the same capacity just adds capacity not redundancy, so I'd get 2TB free space... as you say, should last me until it's time to replace the NAS.
Appreciate the head-up about 4k alignment issue with 2TB drives too - would have been annoying to have to factory reset.
Think I'm running the latest FW (RAIDiator 4.1.13 [1.00a043]) - I was more interested in HCL because of not wanting any weird compatibility problems.
WD10EFRX looks like the sensible option - it's actually on the HCL - and I had forgotten that x-raid meant adding more discs with the same capacity just adds capacity not redundancy, so I'd get 2TB free space... as you say, should last me until it's time to replace the NAS.
Appreciate the head-up about 4k alignment issue with 2TB drives too - would have been annoying to have to factory reset.
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