[Leica] Hard drive advice?

[Don Dory]

It sounds like I should watch sales for 10 to 14tb drives.  With one
failure I was planning on replacing one drive at a time with a larger
drive.  I was hesitant to mix Seagateand WD but it seems irrational at this
point.  Like you I always have at least one spare drive at hand and an
extra 6 to 10 hours while the array rebuilds redundancy.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 6:49 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
wrote:

> I never buy the largest size available. I buy NAS certified 7200RPM.  I
> always buy on sale, which basically means last year’s model. I prefer
> Seagate and WD. I always replace all of the disks in a NAS (one at a time)
> when the second drive fails. I buy one more than the NAS holds, so I have a
> spare. I check SMART data about once a month. If I were buying now I would
> look first at 12TB Seagate.
>
> --
>
>
> > On Oct 13, 2021, at 6:22 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> >
> > I just bought a 2 slot NAS.  I am putting on the 8TB Seagate Ironwolf
> drives.      ( NAS is a Synology).
> >
> > The WD can be a bit cheaper.  Some prefer WD, some prefer Seagate.
> >
> > There was a big sale on 14TB drives recently,   Sold for $219 each.
> They are built to last a bit longer, running 24/7.  Seagate Ironwolf and WD
> Red are the tywo commonly seen drives.   But HGST and Hitachi and Samsung
> also make NAS Drives.
> >
> > The big issue is to get the NAS qualified drives.  Synology provides a
> list of "certified" drives.  I bet Drobo does as well.
> >
> > Thanksgiving is around the corner, and that is the time to buy HDD.
> They go on sale.
> >
> > Buy whatever can fit in the box that is at the sweet spot of $$$ per
> TB.  $25 is the magic "normal" price per TB.  ( 10TB = $250, 16TB = $400)
> >
> > It has been $25/TB for over a year.....
> >
> >
> > Frank Filippone
> > BMWRed735i at gmail.com
> >
> >> On 10/13/2021 2:52 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> >> For the computer literati on the list.  I suffered a hard drive failure
> on
> >> my 5 slot Drobo.  Not a problem and have swapped in a replacement
> drive.  I
> >> did change settings to two drive failure mode with a corresponding
> decrease
> >> in capacity.
> >>
> >> My question is what are the better 3.5 inch large capacity drives?  I am
> >> currently using 6tb red wolf drives and am contemplating going to 14tb
> >> drives if they have similar reliability probabilities.
> >>
> >> Advice and suggestions happily received.
> >
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Don
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