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RN314 - HDD failure question
Greetings,
I currently have an RN314 with 4 - 3TB Seagate HDDs, SATA 6Gb/s 64MB cache (ST3000DM001), 4+ yrs old.
NAS is giving me a “data degraded” error on the display. On the Admin page it shows only 3 drives in the GUI. So it appears I have a drive DOA.
The HDDs are old, I can get them but they are a little pricy. Do I need to stick with drives that are only listed in the compatiblity page or can go with newer technology 3TB HDDs?
https://kb.netgear.com/20641/ReadyNAS-Hard-Disk-Compatibility-List
Thanks for time and any insight?
Kevin
1 Reply
You don't need to strictly stay on the HCL. NAS-Purposed drives (WDC Red, Seagate Ironwolf) are goot options, as are enterprise class.
I don't recommend desktop-class drives anymore (particularly 3 TB Barracudas, which have a rather poor reliability record in RAID arrays).
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