2.5" HDD + NAS Compatibility

Lpieweight on 12/09/2024 - 20:29

Hi folks, I'm new to the NAS and HDD game, need some guidance.

I bought a second hand QNAP TS-470, which came with 4x 2tb HDD. It ran great for a week, then went BANG and has since stopped working.

I'm keen for another and would like to use the drives I already have (assuming they still work), but it looks like they aren't compatible in newer NASes? I'm looking at the QNAP TS-453 BT3 or the QNAP TS-464.

Any ideas? I'm keen to keep costs down as much as I can, though I'm not sure how I'll be able to do that at this stage.

The HDDs I have are Western Digital enterprise class, 2.5" SATA.

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Comments

  • freefall101 on 12/09/2024 - 20:41
    +2

    Why aren't they compatible? 2.5" drives work fine in both those NAS's.

    It says 3.5" bays, but they'll hold the smaller drive too. It's on the spec page too

    https://www.qnap.com/en/product/ts-453bt3/specs/hardware

    Drive Compatibility
    3.5-inch SATA hard disk drives
    2.5-inch SATA hard disk drives
    2.5-inch SATA solid state drives

  • SydStrand on 13/09/2024 - 00:48
    -2

    Why are you so married to the 2.5" drives? It's basically dead tech. Even in their heyday, they were still relatively uncommon, more expensive, and lower capacity.

      • SydStrand on 13/09/2024 - 15:29

        Laptops with HDDs haven't been a thing for years, and laptops with user replaceable HDDs haven't been a thing even longer before that. Even the cheapest of cheap laptops have 256GB SATA SSDs. So take that time machine back out of 2012.

        As for that one other use-case for 2.5" HDDs, aka portable storage, has been completely obviated by plug-in SSDs and flash storage. Even scrolling 2-3 year old threads in r/datahoarder, it doesn't look like anyone but Seagate is making new 2.5" HDDs in this format. So yes. Dead tech. But please feel free to post your 40,000th smart arse comment.

        • Clear on 13/09/2024 - 15:40

          Laptops with 2.5" drives haven't been a thing for years? Whattttttttt? Yes they have. And they still are. You'll find that laptops that don't have M.2 SSDs will have 2.5" SSDs instead.

          OP can run a NAS with 2.5" drives no problem. Most servers use 2.5" SAS HDD or SSD drives anyway so it's not like they're suddenly redundant.

          • SydStrand on 13/09/2024 - 17:30

            @Clear: Obviously, that 2.5" is referring exclusively to HDDs because that's what the OP is asking about in the context of a NAS, not SSDs. No modern laptop ships with HDDs anymore Even Dell's rock bottom, absolute cheapest laptop out of 152 models has a 512GB SSD.

            Yes, the OP can run 2.5" HDD drives in a NAS, but my question is why the OP is specifically married to the idea of holding onto these drives. It's dead tech and they're undoubtedly low capacity now, so OP shouldn't base any purchasing decision over this.

            Most servers use 2.5" SAS HDD or SSD drives anyway

            Most home servers, especially consumer/prosumer NAS set ups do NOT use 2.5" drives, HDD or SSD.

  • garetz on 13/09/2024 - 05:11

    test the disks before you decide anything, it going bang sounds like the power supply died.

    no point in buying a new nas specifically for those 2.5" disks and finding out the disks are also dead.

  • jizmo on 13/09/2024 - 07:08

    Build a Truenas you'll be 100x better off

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