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ReadyNAS 204 - Seagate 8TB Archive Drives Keep Failing
I have had nothing but problems using my ReadyNAS 204 and 4x Seagate 8TB Archive Drives. I would have no problem with a drive failure taking two weeks to re-initialize as long as it was truely a dri...
Thanks for the feedback everyone. The original issue was the failing drives. My answer was the firmware update to v6.7.4. I was just about to spend a ton of money only because I could not keep the drives from failing over and over. I use the NAS simply for storing videos and almost, if never, need to delete any files, just add to them. The Raid stripe is all the redundancy that I require and has proven reliable despite over 10 drive failures since last Xmas.
As long as the drives remain as stable as they have for the last week, even after moving new videos to it each day, I am perfectly happy with the performance of the 8TB Seagate archive drives in my ReadyNAS 204. Hopefully they won't mess anything up that fixed this problem in subsequent firmware updates (crossed fingers).
I consider this thread closed. If the drives become unstable in the future, or I need to upgrade, I will definately get NAS ready drives.
Again,
Thanks,
Ok, thanks for the feedback. I did look around on the internet and the only drawback I saw mentioned was the length of time the raid rebuild would be in case of a drive failure. I had no problem with this. I did not however, see anything mentioned about the drives consistently failing over and over. I will replace the lot with 10TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro's.
By the way, the rebuild time after the update to 6.7.4 has significantly been reduced from about two weeks to just over 2 days!
So wait, you tried to go the cheap route with the 8TB Archive drives, and now you want to go with 10TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro's? So the complete opposite of Price and even larger. Those should work, but really are complete overkill. Your bottleneck is your 1 Gigabit connection. The slower normal WD Red NAS or the normal Seagate NAS drive will save you money. The WD drives are 5400RPM and the Seagate are 5900RPM. I'm using 4 of the Red's and 2 of the Seagate's. I can easily Max out my Gigabit Network on file transfers.
Unless you have 10Gigbit Ethernet on your NAS, with a number of users, it really is overkill. Unless you plan to upgrade your NAS in 6 months to a year and then moving the HDD over to the much faster NAS that could make use of them. Though I have to say, the price difference from a 10TB WD Red Normal, and a 10TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro isn't all that much. A WD Red Pro is even more costly. Seagate are cheaper drives, but I think WD is better reliability.
The slower NAS HDD's have a few benefits. Less Heat as they're running slower. Which is good in a cramped NAS unit. Which also means they run quieter. They're using less power. Since they're running slower, less heat, should last longer. That's my opinion. 3 of my WD Red drives are over 4 years old now and showing zero errors.
It isn't the speed I am after as much as the drives are 2TB larger and even more so, the quality of the disk platters. I read that the material they make the enterprise class drives from is a much higher grade material. It also why the garantee is 5 years for the pro, instead of 3 for the non-pro version.
I'm all for Pro is you have the money to get them! I'm over 4 years now on 2 of my 4 WD Red drives, one almost 4 and the other 3 years. I didn't want to buy all the drives at once as you could end up with a bad batch and have more then 1 HDD fail on you at once and cause you to lose all your data. Plus wear are tear on a HDD that you didn't need the space for at the time. So I started with 2, then 3 and finally 4, which was all my old NAS could hold until getting the 516, and those 4 drives got moved to that and then a I added a Seagate NAS drive and when that got close, added a second Seagate NAS drive. 6 HDD total and now full. All show error erros.
I've heard of to many people having a number of HDD fail at once that they got at the same time. So I think this is the safer way to go. Don't pack your NAS full all at once. Pop a new HDD as you need them. Buy a new HDD as you need them. If you need one for a spare, you buy the 1 and hold onto that as a spare ready to pop in, but again, buy at a later date or from a differnt company so you're not getting one fromt he same batch. That's my recomendation.
Hi JB,
I don't think your idea would help me.
I have been collecting videos for 15 years now. Between my 2 systems at home, I had like 6x 3TB drives spread out amongst the systems. It got to the point that I was having to delete some videos to make room for new ones, so I finally decided to buy the ReadyNAS. I now have 15TB of videos, music, and work files that I have stored on the NAS and no longer have enough Room to move all of the data to another location to change the NAS drives out and rebuild the Raid 5.
I have decided that if these archive drives keep failing that I would get the largest capacity drives, and feel that the extra 100 euros for each of the pro's was worth the extra 6TB of drive space I would gain in addation to the extra 2 years of warrantee I would get. The extra speed is a bonus. This way, I will take the archive drives and buy external enclosures for them and use them to backup all of my data from the newly configured 30TB NAS. I am hoping this will give me growing room for the next few years.
On another note, ever since I upgraded to firmware v6.7.4, I have not had another drive fail. Typically, it happens shortly after writing new data to the drives, so I am about to move all of the new vids to the drive this weekened and hope for the best. I will hold off for a bit on this upgrade until I know how stable v6.7.4 has made my NAS. If it turns out that the v6.7.4 has resolved the drive failing issue, I might not even need to buy new drives. I am not eager to spend another 1,700 euros on 4 more drives.
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