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Are Archive hard Drives ok for Readynas?
Are Archive hard Drives(aka Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) ok for Readynas? They kind of overlap the magnetic strips like shingles, and have a double wide reader/writer head or something lik...
I don't have many official source to quote, but there are multiple discussions and articles online advising not to do that. And it would make sense as these drives are really not designed for this type of usage and can be really slow in write speed.
You should look at the datasheet of your HDD model for more information.
That said, these drives are built for 24/7 operation and archive. So if you want to use your ReadyNAS for true archiving, which I doubt, then maybe. Otherwise, I really wouldn't use these drives in a ReadyNAS.
Here is one example:
"Archive HDDs are not intended for surveillance or NAS applications, and you may experience lower performance in these environments."
"Engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year"
"Best-Fit Applications • Cost-effective online archiving • Object storage • Big Data cold storage • Cloud active archive • Web-scale archiving"
There was a flood of issues and discussion here when these drives first came onto the market. Netgear did make some disk driver patches in the ReadyNAS at the time to overcome some of the issues. After that discusssion died down - not sure if that was because 8 TB PMR drives came onto the market, or if there were other reasons.
jak0lantash wrote:
That said, these drives are built for 24/7 operation and archive. So if you want to use your ReadyNAS for true archiving, which I doubt, then maybe. Otherwise, I really wouldn't use these drives in a ReadyNAS.
RAID sync also presents obvious problems. If you must use the drive in the NAS, then creating a separate JBOD and storing archival material in those shares is the safest approach. Then avoid maintenance functions like balance, defrag, etc.
StephenB wrote:There was a flood of issues and discussion here when these drives first came onto the market. Netgear did make some disk driver patches in the ReadyNAS at the time to overcome some of the issues. After that discusssion died down - not sure if that was because 8 TB PMR drives came onto the market, or if there were other reasons.
.So how does it stand today after the patches? The drives technical work but still not recommended?
miogpsrocks wrote:
So how does it stand today after the patches? The drives technical work but still not recommended?
As I said before, some users found them acceptable, others didn't.
My own recommendation is not to use them.
Don't use Archive drives in the NAS.
Feel free to use them to back up the NAS, however (in a single external case or dual case in JBOD config).
I'm not seeing a huge amount of price difference between the Seagate Archive drives and the Seagate IronWolf NAS drives these days, here in Australia you're talking $298 vs $309 AUD for a 6TB drive.
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