[Cialug] NAS & disk drives

[Dan Hockey]

Another dumb question....If I get the 2bay nas I want should I get spares
and switch out the older drives for a while(for a backup) or should just
run the first set of drives until a failure?

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the input. I ordered a pair of wd reds 2tb drives.
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
>> The hitachi ultrastar 2tb drives have a low failure rate.
>>
>> :) Dave
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Nathan Smith
>> <nathan.smith at rockinghamridge.com> wrote:
>> > Three years plus or minus.
>> >
>> > Check out the backblaze blog about drive lifetime expectancies.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On April 9, 2016 6:30:26 PM CDT, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>What would be you guess about expected life from a wd red?
>> >>
>> >>On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I've been buying the WD Red 4TB drives for a while with no complaints
>> >>so
>> >>> far.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com>
>> >>wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > I've looking upgrade to these
>> >>> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236343
>> >>> >
>> >>> > It's also the drive synology recommends
>> >>> >
>> >>> > For something that's not as power hungry I've been looking at
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108216&cm_re=synology_2bay-_-22-108-216-_-Product
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