Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

bollar wrote:

majayjay wrote: What if you installed the drives into the readynas and then start using it, then down the road there is a new firmware revision that Netgear ends up blessing? In this scenario, can a firmware update be done to the drives without losing the information that is already on the drive? Well, no and yes... Even if we're told differently, I would assume that the data on the drive will be lost, but the array will have all of the data in a degraded mode. So, if I have to update my firmware in the future, I'll pull one drive, update the firmware and reinsert it to the NAS. If the array needs to be resynced, I'll let that happen. Once resync is complete and the array is redundant again, I'll pull the next and so on, and thus shouldn't have any data loss. In any event, I think a full backup of the NAS is cheap insurance. If a drives fails during the resync, or something else goes wrong, you'll have a time consuming data recovery project on your hands.

Exactly. That is what I do anyway. I keep a mirror off-site of all my data. I've had the ReadyNAS fail and lose all my data even with approved drives.

Ironically, I've had a 100% failure rate with my disks in the ReadyNAS. Every one of them has failed at least once. My off-site mirror is running a 6-drive spanned array with no redundancy, and has yet to have a single drive fail in 2 years. Amazing.

oh well.

I'm using the 1.5TB drives now and they are fine. I'll go with them because I want the space and Seagate is the only option for 1.5TB drives right now.