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Scrub/Defrag/Snapshots with Seagate Archive 8TB - ST8000AS0002
Hi, I am thinking at putting a pare of these disks as XRAID (data redundancy) in my legacy Ultra 2 unit with latest 6.4.1 firmware. I understand the limitations. However, I does own one in my de...
I don't recommend them for NAS use (and Seagate specifically warns against it).
If you search this forum, you'll find that these drives are controversial. However, even the proponents have had some problems with them in the ReadyNAS.
At least some of these problems seem to have been fixed in 6.4.1 - perhaps some of the users of these drives will comment on their current experience (and give some real data on volume maintenance times).
If you don't get a response, try PMing powellandy1
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