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Load cycle count with 14TB Seagate Iron Wolf Pro
I put five of the 14TB Iron Wolf Pro drives (ST14000NE0008-2JK101) in my ReadyNAS 628. These drives are in the hardware compatability list. Four of them were installed 24 days ago and the fifth was i...
People here seem to have been happy with NAS-purposed drives (both Red and Ironwolf), as well as enterprise-class from both WD and Seagate.
I've stuck with the Reds because most models use lower power than their Seagate counterparts and therefore run at lower temps. But I won't replace my older WD30EFRX with WD30EFAX. I'd either switch to Ironwolf, or replace them with CMR Reds.
Jumping into to hijack the thread… I'm guessing just from the small discussion here (and a PM chat with Sandshark) that ripping the cheap drives out of an enclosure like this Seagate STEB10000400 Expansion Desktop 10TB External Hard Drive HDD to put into a NAS is not a good idea… and that I really should be spending the $$ on IronWolf NAS drives instead…
PhotoJoseph wrote:
I'm guessing just from the small discussion here (and a PM chat with Sandshark) that ripping the cheap drives out of an enclosure like this Seagate STEB10000400 Expansion Desktop 10TB External Hard Drive HDD to put into a NAS is not a good idea
Yes, that is one takeaway.
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