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8TB ST8000NM0055 with ReadyNAS Pro 6 - so far, so good
My report: One week in, RNDP6000 (no suffix on label) Pro 6, with 6x ST8000NM0055 (f/w SN02) - working fine. This drive is NOT on the HCL, repeat my foolhardy example at your own risk, blah, blah, blah. RAM was upgarded to 4G (2x Kingston KVR800D2N6K2, (discontinued)). Had installed OS 6.6.1 before doing the factory reset with new drives in place. The sync took ~48 hours in the background, with concurrent backups (6TB over that period) running. I'm assuming I already had the newest BIOS on this thing: root@pro2:~# dmesg | grep BIOS ... [ 0.000000] DMI: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS 080014 07/26/2010 These 8TB Disks suffer from the annoying whine at idle, as reported on other threads. Seagate says a new drive f/w will be realeased soon (March 2017 or thereafter). Noise will be fixed by what they say is an adjustment to "step sweep seek value" in firmware. Go to https://apps1.seagate.com/downloads/request.html and enter your drive's serial number to see if the f/w is released. The version we're after should be newer than SN02, perhaps SN03+. I hope someone finds this useful. ~37T formatted capacity: root@pro2:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 10M 4.0K 10M 1% /dev /dev/md0 4.0G 415M 3.3G 12% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 2.0G 5.9M 2.0G 1% /run tmpfs 986M 996K 985M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/md127 37T 8.6T 28T 24% /data /dev/md127 37T 8.6T 28T 24% /apps /dev/md127 37T 8.6T 28T 24% /home3.9KViews0likes4Comments