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Western Digital White Label Drives In ReadyNAS
I have many ReadyNAS units and always used Western Digital 3TB and 4TB Red drives. I have a new project where I need a ton of storage and need to splurge on about ten 8TB drives. I see that people a...
So what Im reading is this:
"The responses I received from Synology, QNAP, NETGEAR and Buffalo all indicated that their NAS RAID controllers don't depend on or even listen to TLER, CCTL, ERC or any other similar error recovery signal from their drives. Instead, their software RAID controllers have their own criteria for drive timeouts, retries and when a drive is finally marked bad."
If this is true, then having drives with TLER in not needed because OS6 handles things its own way, correct?
"So investing in these more expensive drives is probably a smart move if your NAS is under constant heavy use. But it will be the more robust drive construction and not TLER / CCTL / ERC that will make your RAID NAS more reliable."
The WD White Label drives are some of the better drives they are talking about correct?
According to this link they are actually all HGST Helium Enterprise drives which is also good, correct?
Would you use White Label drives in your setup?
egranuloma wrote:
The WD White Label drives are some of the better drives they are talking about correct?
According to this link they are actually all HGST Helium Enterprise drives which is also good, correct?
Would you use White Label drives in your setup?
Other links I've seen say they are white-labeled WD Reds. So WD might relabel a variety of drives (perhaps depending on inventory). Reds make more sense to me though, since power and heat are factors with USB drives, and 5400 rpm models would use less power and run a lot cooler.
I've never used one myself (though I've sometimes been tempted to try one in my backup NAS). There are folks who've posted here saying that they used the drives successfully.
One factor is that you do give up the warranty (and the ability to return to the seller) as soon as you shuck the drives.
Sorry it took me so long to get back, I've been terribly sick.
So I guess I am at a crossroad here. I need five drives for starts, four for the array (2100v2 unit) with one spare.
I can buy:
WD RED 8TB (WD80EFAX) for about $210 ech on eBay ($1050 total)
WD White Label 8TB (WD80EZAZ) for about $120 each on eBay (brand new shuck, no warrenty) (600 total)
Now I thought:
I would need to Kapton tape the third pin, but I guess I dont which is GOOD
I would need drives with persistant TLER enable, but I guess TLER only matters on hardware raids and not software raids like ReadyNAS OS, Correct?
I dont mind being a guinea pig to earn a little street credit on here lol, I am just looking for someone to tell me to pull the trigger and on what.
Thanks guys!
Adam
Given the number of DoA and infant mortality drives we see reported here (most where the poster suspects the NAS, as it just can't be that brand new drive), I would not take a chance on drives without any warranty, even from the seller.
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