Been looking for another one to replace a Seagate Desktop drive (one of which has already died) in my NAS. Not the cheapest price ever, but it's a good deal if you have Amazon Prime for the free delivery, similar to the recent eBay deals but you'll get it a lot quicker :)
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Naaa It's a custom box (ESX with HBA passthrough).
The Seagate desktop drive died and I've replaced it with a WD Red. I hope these don't die in 2yrs!
interesting onservation pensionday, I have had the same (1 drive) with my Synology.
oof did you have to send the faulty drive to Vietnam or the local store handled the warranty on your behalf? mwave said I needed to send it at my cost to vietnam
I was fortunate that the local store handled the RMA… Umart are generally quite good with this type of thing (although, it's always a ~2 wk turn around). The intriguing thing I've noted is the same drive bay has caused the issue each time. From memory, it was always bay two, which has a small PCB attached to the SATA that appears to be a controller. Wondering if it's a flaky power controller…
Contact WD directly and you can get them to arrange a fedEx pickup for free. ive done it a few times
according Australian consumer law, mwave need to handle the warranty if you purchased it from them
How did manage to contact them? I got one 8tb died but I was unable to contact them to RMA
they are consumer grade disks, if you want a disk to last more than 2-3 years, get enterprise grade especially if they are on 24/7
I've had an enterprise grade 8TB toshiba die within 9 months, nothing is guaranteed
Of course nothing is guaranteed, anything can die at any time, but mttf is Mean time to failure, thats not to say it wont die day 1.
The actual difference in failure rate is minute.
Pay more attention to this stuff:
Run RAID with redundancy
Stay at 4GB or below (rebuild times are excessive above this)
Keep a cold spare ready to swap in
Have an offsite or cloud backup
The drive failure rate RED vs GREEN vs Enterprise is unsubstantial.
Of course in an actual enterprise situation you are 100% right, it would be poor to use anything other than enterprise drives.
Same issue on my Synology. Two of these dead at the moment waiting for FedEx…
Isn't it free delivery for non-Prime members given it is over $49?
Yes.
Ohhh thanks, updated. I've had Prime for so long totally forgot that.
good price
I ordered mine through eBay with Computer Alliance for about $152
no rush so I'll just leave it
Would i save much power using 5400rpm instead of 7200rpm disks? Currently running 4x wd red pro disks (7200rpm) in my nas. But are due to get some bigger disks soon.
Heat is probably the bigger issue rather than power.
I wonder what the statistics on drive failure is like when you compare the orientation of the drive - horizontal vs vertical?
Nas units almost always run the drives side by side vertically….perhaps they don't like constantly running against gravity?
Has anyone ever seen statistics on this factor?
Your NAS wouldn't happen to be a synology? I've lost two REDs in the last 2 years; warranty replaced them, although I'm starting to wonder if the drives are dying due to the NAS itself…