Re: [PLUG] WD 4TB Red drive failure...

Tests by Preheim suggest that my drives are actually fine. So I'm looking at a software problem. I upgraded to FreeNAS 9.10 U3, I  think the problem lies there. Seems iX Systems is having trouble and from a web search for FreeNAS 10, I found out that the release  was abandoned. FreeNAS 11 is

Re: [PLUG] WD 4TB Red drive failure...

On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 19:39 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2017 19:04:26 -0700 > Nat Taylor dijo: > > > I don't think ssds last longer than regular drives.   > > Is this true? Is there any data to back up this statement? Is there > any > data at all about

Re: [PLUG] WD 4TB Red drive failure...

On Wed, 10 May 2017 19:04:26 -0700 Nat Taylor dijo: >I don't think ssds last longer than regular drives. Is this true? Is there any data to back up this statement? Is there any data at all about the relative lifespan of an ssd compared to physical drives?

Re: [PLUG] WD 4TB Red drive failure...

I don't think ssds last longer than regular drives. You would be better off setting up RAID, with 3x 2TB (or 4TB) drives for every 2TB (or 4) of data, using either RAID 4 or RAID 5. An external NAS RAID enclosure might be the way to go. I haven't done this, but I should. On Wednesday, May 10,

Re: [PLUG] WD 4TB Red drive failure...

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:16:28AM -0700, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > I suspect that my two Western Digital 4TB Red drives are only 3-4  > years old. I'm running FreeNAS 9.10 U3. I'm getting an error  > finding the ZFS filesystem that is striped across the two drives. > Thought maybe

Re: [PLUG] WD 4TB Red drive failure...

My goodness if you got 4 years out of a WDRed you got lucky. HD's are not forever. Have you seen the Backblaze hard drive reliability data? You might find it interesting, i do. :-) https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/ On May 10, 2017 12:16:28 AM PDT,