Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That was a helpful link. It appears that somewhere around 36 months HDD failure rates start going up. That appears to be a budget problem in terms of planned replacement schedule. Currently it appears that both 12 and 14tb drives are reliable in the timeframe mentioned for failure rates. Drobo does have a calculator for what mix of drive sizes provides what storage space is available so I was aware that adding one large drive doesn't add storage space especially if using the dual drive failure feature. Understood and will buy based on size/price reliability scale. On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 7:33 PM RicCarter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2021/ > > I?m using mostly Toshibas and HGST (although they are now WD) > > Drobo brags that mixing sizes and brands is fine > > you do sacrafice some space if your largest drive does not have a matching > size pair > eg is all your drives are 6 and one 8, you don?t get the textra 2 from the > 8 until you replace one of the 6 with something larger > > ric > > > > > On Oct 13, 2021, at 5:52 PM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > 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. > > -- > > Don > > don.dory at gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com