On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 23:23 -0800, Ben Koenig wrote: > On 1/6/21 8:06 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:39:07 -0800 > > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > > > > > Thanks for the opinion on Synology, echoing what Ron said. I > > > think I'll > > > continue using it, and just replace the disks. > > > > I'm fixin' to buy a couple of 16TB WD Gold drives, that is, if I > > can > > find anyone who has them in stock. > > > > And that is, unless I hear from someone here that the WD 16TB Gold > > is a > > bad idea. > > > Last I heard WD Gold was discontinued which would explain why they > appear to be out of stock. For a small NAS you probably want to look > at > WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf. Both have decent longevity but since you > are > running RAID0 you are rolling the dice regardless of what you buy. > > > As for RAID0, I want to re-iterate what Tomas pointed out. RAID0 > does > not offer you any benefit and will result in losing 100% of your > data > when a single disk fails. JBOD or SPAN will function exactly the > same > without putting your data at risk. > > > My recommendation is that you go with NAS branded disks running at > 5400RPM. When you install them Synology should provide a JBOD or > SPAN > option that will work just as before without scaring the living snot > out > of everyone on this list. > > -Ben > >
I would recommend against getting WD Red NAS drives - they are shingled (SMR) drives. Seagate Ironwolf are normal NAS drives. The only independent and good hard drive reliability information I have is from Backblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/ If you: a) have no disk errors b) SMART data is good c) volume scrub/check comes clean If all the above is met - I do not see reason to replace anything - you have reliable drives - and you are happy with your backup. Buying new disks increases your risk initially - until you know that they are good disks long term. And - you should consider scheduling monthly disk scrub/checks + enabling logs on the NAS. Best luck, Tomas _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
