Re: Stupid RAID question

2023-02-07 Thread Henk Terhell
I bought last week an 8 TB Seagate Expansion Desktop drive and it also has the recovery service. So it looks like all Seagate drives have this now. Henk Op di 7 feb. 2023 om 11:55 schreef Underpaid N. Overpentaxed < overpenta...@gmail.com>: > All the big hdd makers spend roughly the same 0.4s r

Re: Stupid RAID question

2023-02-07 Thread Underpaid N. Overpentaxed
All the big hdd makers spend roughly the same 0.4s range percentage of turnover on repairs & replacement. Seagate used to have troubles, but that was long ago. Now their IronWolf Pro models even come with a recovery service. I no longer use anything else, knowing the cost of professional raid recov

Re: Stupid RAID question

2023-02-06 Thread Bill
On 2/6/2023 6:30 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: For what it is worth, I have had bad luck with Seagate drives. Do check the backblaze disk reliability tests. The ones I bought don't show up on their list. I've always had good luck with Seagates. I'm pretty sure my Drobo has 5 Barracuda drives in it

Re: Stupid RAID question

2023-02-06 Thread lrc
For what it is worth, I have had bad luck with Seagate drives. Do check the backblaze disk reliability tests. On February 6, 2023 4:16:14 PM PST, Bill wrote: >Not being one to spend a lot of time or effort on researching things, I >decided on the Synology DS1522+ disk station and will be filling

Re: Stupid RAID question

2023-02-06 Thread Bill
Not being one to spend a lot of time or effort on researching things, I decided on the Synology DS1522+ disk station and will be filling it with 5 Seagate IronWolf 8tb NAS drives. I decided I want to replace my Drobo as my main storage because that company seems to have gone away during covid an

Re: Stupid RAID question

2023-02-06 Thread John Sessoms
See if it will do RAID 6. That gives you TWO stripes of redundancy and it allows for a second disk failure if one should occur while you're rebuilding the array after a first disk failure. That's what I did with my home-built file server. On 2/5/2023 4:07 PM, Bill wrote: OK guys and gals, h

Re: Stupid RAID question

2023-02-05 Thread Larry Colen
> On Feb 5, 2023, at 1:07 PM, Bill wrote: > > OK guys and gals, here is your dumbass question of the month. > Yes it's coming early. It’s never too early. > I'm looking at RAID enclosures, and am leaning towards Synology, but haven't > settled on which one. I have an older DS416 that I’m r