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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...
Thanks, I will wait a little as you suggested
I also read about the issues, fixed in 6.4.1 from the feedback
This disk is in fact very tempting for the price /Gb
For archive/backup purpose, in my desktop, it is just an amazing disk with great performances.
I have one Archibe 8Tb disk in my desktop PC since 6 months now. I use it as a backup that is mirrored to the NAS each 6h on a schedule. Performance wise, the NAS with standard HDDs in it has much lower performances than my desktop with the archive HDD. Be it read or sustained write, the Ultra 2 NAS with 7500 rpm disks is far behind. I took time to test it. If we stay to its dedicated use, it just beats any current disk price per performance wise.
So I don't think I will be disappointed with its performances in a RAID 1 setup used the way I do: backups + streaming
The main concern is really about the maintenance tasks, mainly routine snapshots and the deadly scrub.
I found this topic on FreeNAS
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/seagate-8tb-archive-drive-in-freenas.27740/page-3
Scrub speed seems all but an issue
So I am really tempted
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