Zarathustra[H]
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Hey all,
After 3 years, my 12 4TB WD Reds are starting to fill up. I'm only at 70% as it stands, but I am starting to think and scheme about their replacement.
They are configured in a ZFS pool of two 6 disk RAIDz2 vdevs. My plan is to buy 6 disks at a time, not too far from eachother and replace one drive at a time, and resilver until capacity goes up.
The question is, what to get? The Red's have served me very well. In the 3+ years I've had them (some are older, as I gradually migrated to them) I've had only one start to go bad and replaced under warranty. Looking at pricing out there though, it doesn't appear as if drives have gotten much cheaper over the last 3 years since I was last buying them.
1.) There are two obvious contenders. Seagate's 8TB Ironwolf drives at $259.99 and WD's 8TB Red drives sy $264.99.
They are pretty close in price. People used to think rather poorly of Seagate. Is that still the case? I'm not convinced reliability differences even matter in a fully redundant system, unless you get so bad that you get into multiple failures, before you can replace the first one.
2.) I hear people talking about cracking open WB Mybook Duo's. Is there any reason not to do this? Do they contain real RED drives with TLER? How is warranty once you crack them open?
3.) Are there any other drives I should be considering?
Much obliged
After 3 years, my 12 4TB WD Reds are starting to fill up. I'm only at 70% as it stands, but I am starting to think and scheme about their replacement.
They are configured in a ZFS pool of two 6 disk RAIDz2 vdevs. My plan is to buy 6 disks at a time, not too far from eachother and replace one drive at a time, and resilver until capacity goes up.
The question is, what to get? The Red's have served me very well. In the 3+ years I've had them (some are older, as I gradually migrated to them) I've had only one start to go bad and replaced under warranty. Looking at pricing out there though, it doesn't appear as if drives have gotten much cheaper over the last 3 years since I was last buying them.
1.) There are two obvious contenders. Seagate's 8TB Ironwolf drives at $259.99 and WD's 8TB Red drives sy $264.99.
They are pretty close in price. People used to think rather poorly of Seagate. Is that still the case? I'm not convinced reliability differences even matter in a fully redundant system, unless you get so bad that you get into multiple failures, before you can replace the first one.
2.) I hear people talking about cracking open WB Mybook Duo's. Is there any reason not to do this? Do they contain real RED drives with TLER? How is warranty once you crack them open?
3.) Are there any other drives I should be considering?
Much obliged