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Seagate 8TB Archive drives (ST8000AS0002) do work
Just thought I'd pass along in case anyone was curious of the 8TB drives work or not. So far in testing a Pro 6 and an Ultra 6 I have 3 8TB drives in the pro 6 and 2 in the ultra 6 (with another one ...
Sustained write speeds are the big issue with this drive. If you use these drives it is best to set them up as jbod.
Well they were working great on 6.24 and 6.35RC2 but since I was prompted to upgrade to 6.4.0 by the box itself things have went downhill. I tried the 6.4.0 betas and didn't have much luck so I don't know why I thought the official would be any different. I'm getting lots of errors with disks now and whatnot that are permanently registered wth the drive that I know are just errors since they all started happening right after I switched to 6.4.0 (I'm getting ATA errors and lots of command timeouts.)
I'll just end up pulling out one of the 8tb drives and copying all the data back to that and then factory resetting back to 6.2.4 as that seemed very stable. I can't have volumes randomly dropping drives and the software itself ruining the drives by reporting errors that will stay with the drive forever that aren't really errors.
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