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eda500 options (is this thing problematic?)
Hey guys I'm at my wits end with the eda500. If you look at this thing the wrong way it starts resyncing.
I just got 2 new 8TB reds for my main RN312. In my eda500 I have four 4TB greens and ...
My RN204, RN316 and EDA500 have Seagate ST4000DM000 disks, and they've been running fine for years. No problems with Seagate disks, and they have never needed to resync. Just make sure that you get a NAS rated disk.
The WD green drives are (historically) bad for RAID devices because they like to spin down by themselves, and are sometimes slow to spin back up. Another problem is that the green drives do not have tolerance to rotational vibration, which is bad when you have a stack of drives in the same chassis. It causes them to wear out prematurely.
NETGEAR Support can and will deny support on devices using drives not found on the official compatibility list.
https://kb.netgear.com/20641/ReadyNAS-Hard-Disk-Compatibility-List
- Thanks for the advice. I have used wdidle on the greens to max the headparking delay. That was back when i was using freenas.
So u think it will make all the difference, getting the nas type hdds?
Aren't those drives ur using desktop drives? That list doesn't list my new wd 80efax drives.Yep, the ST4000DM000 is labled as a desktop drive, but it's tolerant to rotational vibration, and doesn't have any of the funky spindown power tricks. Seagate also approves it for server and DAS use.
I think it'll make all the difference in the world. I've heard nothing but bad things about the green drives in a NAS.
I don't recommend desktop drives for NAS use myself - I'd have gone with Ironwolf (or Red in the case of WDC). Though Seagate does certify the DM for NAS use, there have been a lot of early failures reported here with the DM drive. Most were with the 3 TB model, and it is possible that Seagate has addressed the problem in the newer models.
As far as the EDA500 goes, there are a lot of issues reported here from folks using it. Of course, people who post usually are reporting problems, but I'm not seeing any "hey, it works great for me responses" either. Many report that it doesn't perform well - very slow during resyncs in particular.
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