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<blockquote data-quote="Pheasant Surprise" data-source="post: 4825794" data-attributes="member: 1103"><p>I remember first reading these drive reliability charts and thinking wow!! Might've even commented on here about it. However if you read a little bit about Backblaze, how they initially procured and setup their storage arrays, you might take their drive reliability tables with a lump of salt...</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html</a></p><p></p><p>Anyway, the take away is only use drives specified for a given task/duty and given workload for that task and workload and no other: so definitely use only NAS grade drives in NAS units.</p><p></p><p>Sounds obvious doesn't it, but I made the schoolboy mistake of using WD Scorpio Black (desktop/notebook) grade drives in the little 4-bay NAS and they caught me out spectacularly. Not so much a smoke and light show, but the fact that three of them died basically simultaneously - there was no hope of recovering the array when 3 drives out of 4 went 'poof'!</p><p></p><p>Lesson learnt I replaced them with NAS-specific drives: WD Red NASware 3.0's which have (touch wood) been fine since.</p><p></p><p>It will be interesting to see how these new Seagates hold up. Over the years I've installed/used Seagate, Qantum (remember them), IBM, Maxstor (another long lost name), Hitachi and WD drives. I've honestly found Seagate no more or less reliable than any other brand - despite what you may read in certain parts of the internet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pheasant Surprise, post: 4825794, member: 1103"] I remember first reading these drive reliability charts and thinking wow!! Might've even commented on here about it. However if you read a little bit about Backblaze, how they initially procured and setup their storage arrays, you might take their drive reliability tables with a lump of salt... [URL]https://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html[/URL] Anyway, the take away is only use drives specified for a given task/duty and given workload for that task and workload and no other: so definitely use only NAS grade drives in NAS units. Sounds obvious doesn't it, but I made the schoolboy mistake of using WD Scorpio Black (desktop/notebook) grade drives in the little 4-bay NAS and they caught me out spectacularly. Not so much a smoke and light show, but the fact that three of them died basically simultaneously - there was no hope of recovering the array when 3 drives out of 4 went 'poof'! Lesson learnt I replaced them with NAS-specific drives: WD Red NASware 3.0's which have (touch wood) been fine since. It will be interesting to see how these new Seagates hold up. Over the years I've installed/used Seagate, Qantum (remember them), IBM, Maxstor (another long lost name), Hitachi and WD drives. I've honestly found Seagate no more or less reliable than any other brand - despite what you may read in certain parts of the internet. [/QUOTE]
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