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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...
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I have 3 of these Seagate 8TB drives in an Ultra 6 on 6.4.2b1. I haven't had any problems with this firmware, and I think the fix was applied in 6.4.1.
As long as you don't have them in a RAID array that requires extensive building (I have them set up as JBOD - which I think as StephenB says is a RAID0 volume accross all the drives) the performance is fine and the wear on the disk minimal. Similarly, provided data is not deleted and re-written the performance and wear is good. Similarly when used in this way you don't need to defrag/scrub etc.. which will cause wear.
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thanks for the feedback
Since I own the NAS, I rebuilt 3 times: once when upgrading from 4.x to 6.x, once because of a corruption caused by manually messing folders and permissions via SSH during 6.x test phase and once because one of my children did a forced unexpected shutdown
I quiet never rebuild in a RAID1, data stored is mainly video and photos that stay "for ever". There is a few gigs of data that are updated in small parts (app updates, sync mobile devices contents...)
Read operations are mainly handled from the PC mirror.
So, my pure use is cold backup in RAID 1 (updated as I mentioned above) and as a DLNA server
Seems it shouldn't deceive me in the NAS more than in my actual desktop...
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