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RN212 disk replacement - both at once
RN212 with filled-up 2TB Toshiba drives. Purchased two Seagate Ironwolf ST12000VNZ008 12TB replacement drives. Backed up the RN212, powered down, and removed the 2 2TB drives. Installed the 2 12...
Minor update to finish off thread. Two Ironwolf 12TB's successfully installed/re-sync'd, have not re-populated them yet with data.
Ran speed tests using NASTester 1.7, ATTO Benchmark, Black Magic...
Original Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM disks were fetching around 230MB/s read, 110MB/s write.
New Ironwolf's (also 7200RPM) are fetching around 195MB/s read, 105MB/s write.
All benchmark tools show a similar decline in speed vs. the older (and much smaller) Toshiba disks. I suspect the disk size is the main driver here, although I have noticed on benchmarking web sites that Ironwolf's are not best in class re: speed.
Considered sending the Ironwolf's back for some WD Gold 10TB's (or 12TB's), benchmarks show these to be about 20% faster. I'm still in the 30 day return period so am noodling on that... If anyone has experience with WD Gold's to share, I'm all ears. Particularly curious about real-life noise. The Ironwolf's are decidely mediocre on that front.
But overall, bottom line is that I've more or less tapped this RN212 for all I'm gonna get with its dual-1GbE ports and low-end CPU. If I want any better than this, will require a new chassis altogether, with 10GbE or a fast serial port (USB3.x, Thunderbolt, et al).
I had two 4TB WD golds (from a NAS with 5 and one HGST) fail shortly after warranty expiration (one at 1 month after, the other at 6ish). They both worked right up till they didn't. No ATA errors, re-allocated sectors, etc. Just BAM!, the knock of death. But the other 3 are doing fine (still no errors) almost two years later. Makes one understand why most enterprises replace around the time the warranty expires.
The NAS was run continuously, BTW, with drive spin-down enabled at 30 min of inactivity. They are now in a rack mount unit, which does not support spin-down. They were all from the same lot, so maybe I just got unlucky.
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