8TB ST8000NM0055 with ReadyNAS Pro 6 - so far, so good

Thx for posting your experience with these drives.  It'll help inform other folks when they are looking at drive upgrades.

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onrofla wrote:

One week in, RNDP6000 (no suffix on label) Pro 6, with 6x ST8000NM0055 (f/w SN02) - working fine.

This drive is NOT on the HCL, repeat my foolhardy example at your own risk, blah, blah, blah.

 

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They aren't updating the HCL anymore - I've recommended selecting disks from current enterprise-class or NAS-purposed drives for some time now. Tracking down old drives from the HCL makes little sense to me.

I see you are also running OS 6.  There are expansion limits with OS 4.2 firmware that start to get in the way if you are using 4 TB or larger drives.  Switching to OS 6 is a reasonable solution, especially if you are out of warranty.

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onrofla wrote:

 

...These 8TB Disks suffer from the annoying whine at idle, as reported on other threads.

Seagate says a new drive f/w will be realeased soon (March 2017 or thereafter).  Noise will be fixed by what they say is an adjustment to "step sweep seek value" in firmware.

 

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Some posters here seem to have gotten updated firmware already.  "March 2017" is now of course, but if there is delay you might push Seagate a bit.