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ST2000DL003 Compatibility?
Being a RNP user that is running out of space, I'm wanting to purchase new drives. I'm interested in using the Seagate ST2000DL003 2TB drives. These drives are not currently listed on the compatib...
?? I thought it was recommended to get the 4k working properly within the NAS? As opposed to relying on the Seagate 'smartalign'? If it wasn't necessary then I could have achieved all of this by just hot-swapping the drives with no downtime?
mdgm wrote: In any case doing the factory reset was probably unnecessary if the disk was new and hadn't been used before, but it wouldn't have hurt.
The drives were Seagate 7200 drives. Do you think the newer 5900 ones will be slower then?
mdgm wrote: Comparing two disks in the NAS versus one isn't a fair comparison in my view. You also need to consider the performance differences between your new and old disks.
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