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Replacement Hard Drives for NV+ V1 WD Gold WD20005FBYZ
I will be upgrading my four 9+ year old 1T WD10EADS-00L5B1 drives in my NV+ V1 unit. I am looking at four WD Gold drives model WD2005FBYZ. My NAS is at Raidiator 4.1.14. Block size is 16384, so ...
Sandshark wrote:
I'm not sure why you would go with Gold on an NV+ instead of Red. You're going to get equal performance on them, and the Reds will run cooler. But I see no reason they won't work so long as your OS is up to date. Before there were NAS rated drives, I used Enterprise drives on an NV (not even plus).
I picked the Enterprise drive (WD Gold) for reliability, not performance. The NV+ is my home backup device, with four 9+ year old 1T WD Green drives installed. I am hoping to get 9+ years out of the new drives, but time will tell.
I will report if the drives are compatiable or not with the NV+ V1 after they arrive.
jeromes58 wrote:
I picked the Enterprise drive (WD Gold) for reliability, not performance. ... with four 9+ year old 1T WD Green drives installed.
FWIW, my own NV+ is still using WD green drives (2 TB models) I purchased in 2010. I have a Duo v1 also - which has a WD Red and a Seagate drive. I've been using Red drives in other NAS since 2012, and I've found them to be very reliable.
The NV+ has been quite reliable for me too, but I don't expect it to run for another 10 years. I use my old sparc ReadyNAS as secondary backups.
StephenB wrote:
jeromes58 wrote:
I picked the Enterprise drive (WD Gold) for reliability, not performance. ... with four 9+ year old 1T WD Green drives installed.FWIW, my own NV+ is still using WD green drives (2 TB models) I purchased in 2010. I have a Duo v1 also - which has a WD Red and a Seagate drive. I've been using Red drives in other NAS since 2012, and I've found them to be very reliable.
The NV+ has been quite reliable for me too, but I don't expect it to run for another 10 years. I use my old sparc ReadyNAS as secondary backups.
Good to know. The only reason I am changing drives is that #1 of the four is showing signs of failing via reallocated sector count is increasing. Count is at 4 now. Happy to have had the good years of serviced from the drives. I am sitting on a replacement power supply for my NV+ so I hope so see another 10 years. My unit is on a desktop with good air flow. I keep it clean.
Reallocated sector count has increased in the last day. Disk 1: Previous count: 2 Current count: 4
Personally, I don't even blink at 4 re-allocated sectors, unless it's on a really new drive; but it's up to you. I've had drives last years after a couple re-allocated sectors show up. I always have a spare drive around, just in case, but have never done a wholesale replacement except for capacity's sake. Of course, I do always have a current backup on another NAS, too.
I have 4 Hitachi Desktop rated drives with over 60K hours still going strong that have been moved from one NAS to another a couple times. They are now relegated to a backup system only because of their smaller size. Spinning up 3 times a week for the backup is likely harder on them than constant use.
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