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Noob here. Before I pull the trigger at BB, does anyone on this thread know if the drives support NASware 3.0? (EFAX or EFZX).
Are there any issues mixing 128 / 256 cache versions in a NAS?
I'm nearly done expanding my latest drive, a 6th for my NAS. I have another sitting on my desk, and another in my Mac Pro. FWIW, the 2010 Mac Pros don't like these. They won't be available to the OS with a reboot, only from a hard power down/up.
My Asus Sabertooth 990FX board in my Plex server doesn't like the 8TB either. It could see the drive but couldn't format it, kept failing, then I formatted in my other PC and put it back into the Saberooth machine and got really really slow write speeds on both onboard controllers, less than 10MB/sec.
Ended up putting it into my Sabertooth Z97 gaming setup, which didn't really need the space, but had no other machine to use it in.
What speeds are you hitting in the Z97 ? I have a 990fx as well, and am experiencing the same issue.
Hope to upgrade soon, so not too worried.
Anyone else experiencing any issues ?
LMAO!!! I store my dual layer blu-ray moviess which are in upwards of 45GB each! I have a total of 25TB of HDDs with blu-ray movies on them. What were you saying about there's no way anyone can actually use all the data these can hold again?!
Well ran into an issue with my Perc H710 raid card. While it loves the group of 4TB WD blacks I've got on it, it will only see 1/2 of the connected WD Reds. So 6 drives shows as 3, and 4 as 2, etc. Which sucks, but I figure I'll toss that out as a warning for anyone else considering the Dell Perc controllers.
That sucks. Even my old a*s SuperMicro SAT2-MV8s can handle 8TB drives.Sounds like maybe the Dell Perc controller can only handle 32-bit LBAs. An 8TB drive requires 34 bits for the LBA.
FWIW, I'm running 12x of these drives just fine on an H700. May want to check for firmware updates.Well ran into an issue with my Perc H710 raid card. While it loves the group of 4TB WD blacks I've got on it, it will only see 1/2 of the connected WD Reds. So 6 drives shows as 3, and 4 as 2, etc. Which sucks, but I figure I'll toss that out as a warning for anyone else considering the Dell Perc controllers.
Strangely they do not. They're old school usb mass storage.Anybody know if these support UASP or any of the USB 3.0 boost technologies?
Damn! Well that sucks. Made the mistake of installing my two drives in RAID 1 (Windows mirror) and now I'm having problems with sleep mode. Often the system will not wake up properly and I have to reset which Windows goes into resync mode for hours on end (more than 12 hours). Now I need to back everything up, break the mirror set and yank one drive out, then restore everything. Was hoping to use the enclosure for backing up but if it doesn't support any boost, I might as well do it via SATA.Strangely they do not. They're old school usb mass storage.
Just got back from BestBuy where I exchanged my three suspected bad drives (all made in China 128MB cache units) and I cherry picked 3 new ones, all made in Taiwan 256MB Cache units. Currently copying all of my media across two different systems and 5 hard drives onto my 30TB Raid 6 array without issues. So the Dell Perc 710 controller is fine, and is writing at about 478MB/s.
It's not likely that you bought 6 drives and 3 of them were bad.
That would mean that every other person who buys one gets a bad drive.
So on a pallet of drives, half the pallet is bad drives?
You're right, it's not likely. But it's not impossible, either. And to go from that, to this conclusion:
No. That's not what it means at all. His small sample size isn't indicative of anything meaningful when applied to hundreds of thousands of identical drives.
If I buy a dozen eggs without peeking under the lid and discover after getting home that six of them are broken, it doesn't mean that everyone who buys eggs can expect half of them to be broken or that half of the eggs in the boxes on the pallet were broken, lol. It means I was unfortunate enough that I happened to get six broken eggs that day.
back on sale
It's showing up as $180 for me.
1 of my 4 was DOA new out of the box. That's a 25% DOA Rate for me. :-\
Other than that. I'm thrilled with em!
Was the bad one from China or Taiwan?