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ReadyNAS NV+ Hanging...think it's a bad disk
3 times over the past 2 weeks my ReadyNAS NV+ has hung...I can't access shares or FrontView. I have to do a hard boot by pulling the power cable. Once it comes back up it does a resync which takes a...
I posted a link earlier to the BackBlaze recommendations (based on their failure rates): http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/wh ... uld-i-buy/
They seem to take your strategy btw, as they continue to buy Seagates based on price, even though they expect them to be less reliable. However, they find Hitachi to be the most reliable, followed closely by Western Digital. Most people seem to feel that enterprise drives are not worth the extra money, and don't perform differently from consumer grade drives. I've never purchased enterprise drives, so I have no personal experience with them.
Personally I favor the WDC Reds. I have 14 drives in 4 NAS at the moment (which is admittedly crazy. I will consolidate to 2 in the future, but that is a separate subject...).
In terms of drives:
4 are WDC Green drives - which have been working for 4 years with no issues. But I don't really recommend them.
8 are WDC Red drives. I do recommend them, since they are on the HCL, have 3 year warranties,are tuned for NAS and are as "green" as the WDC Green drives. They are also acoustically quiet and run cool. I haven't had any fail. Generally they are only slightly more expensive than WDC consumer drives. So I think they are a good deal overall.
2 are Seagates. These have been in place for quite a while. There used to be more, but I have gradually replaced them with WDC as they have failed.
My reason for switching away from Seagates was that I had a bunch of failures a couple of years ago - both internal drives (mainly 1.5 TB) and USB drives of various sizes. I've had better luck with the 2.5" seagates than the 3.5. I've had much lower failure rates with Western Digital.
Keep in mind that all information is retrospective - generally based on older drive models no longer in production.
They seem to take your strategy btw, as they continue to buy Seagates based on price, even though they expect them to be less reliable. However, they find Hitachi to be the most reliable, followed closely by Western Digital. Most people seem to feel that enterprise drives are not worth the extra money, and don't perform differently from consumer grade drives. I've never purchased enterprise drives, so I have no personal experience with them.
Personally I favor the WDC Reds. I have 14 drives in 4 NAS at the moment (which is admittedly crazy. I will consolidate to 2 in the future, but that is a separate subject...).
In terms of drives:
4 are WDC Green drives - which have been working for 4 years with no issues. But I don't really recommend them.
8 are WDC Red drives. I do recommend them, since they are on the HCL, have 3 year warranties,are tuned for NAS and are as "green" as the WDC Green drives. They are also acoustically quiet and run cool. I haven't had any fail. Generally they are only slightly more expensive than WDC consumer drives. So I think they are a good deal overall.
2 are Seagates. These have been in place for quite a while. There used to be more, but I have gradually replaced them with WDC as they have failed.
My reason for switching away from Seagates was that I had a bunch of failures a couple of years ago - both internal drives (mainly 1.5 TB) and USB drives of various sizes. I've had better luck with the 2.5" seagates than the 3.5. I've had much lower failure rates with Western Digital.
Keep in mind that all information is retrospective - generally based on older drive models no longer in production.
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