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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"
Ugh!
I guess I will use my 8TB as intended as a stand-alone backup to my Readynas for picture and documents,etc..
I purchase this as an external drive and opened it up to use the hard drive in an upgrade.
Thanks.
miogpsrocks wrote:
I purchase this as an external drive and opened it up to use the hard drive in an upgrade.
It is tempting to do that because of the lower price, though even if they are PMR they aren't designed for RAID (no TLER for example).
Most Seagate USB drives > 4 TB are SMR. Western Digital drives don't use SMR.
Hopefully HAMR will come along soon. The 16 TB seagates expected in 2018 are allegedly HAMR.
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