16TB WD Elements

Went for 16TB Elements, I have literally no space. From reading all drives are noisy hopefully this one is acceptable.

I could wait for 16TB SSD but I think I'll be waiting a while..
 
i have a large number of WD drives of varying sizes which i have shucked and work fine in a NAS.. granted not a 16, but 12 and 14 work fine... then again in terms of noise.. aren't most external drives using 5400rpm rather than the 7200rpm variants
 
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The last 8TBs I shucked were 5640RPM, same as WD Red Plus 8TB. I'll check my un-shucked 18TB later.

<Later> The Elements 18TB contains a WD180EDGZ which is 7200RPM.
 
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The last 8TBs I shucked were 5640RPM, same as WD Red Plus 8TB. I'll check my un-shucked 18TB later.

<Later> The Elements 18TB contains a WD180EDGZ which is 7200RPM.
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As I found with all my 10 and 14TB WD shucks, the firmware limited the performance to 5400RPM speeds. Maybe they've stopped the practice with the newer drives, what are the R/W speeds? If its 220-230 or so rather than 270-280 then you've got a Firmware limited drive...

There was a SMART trick with my drives that if you ran a SMART test, you'd suddenly get 270MB/sec, compared to the normal 220MB/sec. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...ite_label_12tb_and_14tb_drives_get_30_faster/

Replaced all the drives with Seagate instead as absolutely pointless having a 7200RPM drive, with its power draw (and noise, not that I cared about that with the server in a cupboard) yet limited to 5400RPM speeds, worst of both worlds...!
 
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Yeah it's pretty damn loud doing benchmark test on Synology Nas and random access is mega loud and rattling the Nas case.

16tb is a bit louder than the 8tb

I'll try the second drive in the Nas, a wd elements 8tb and post inages

Benchmark takes a while


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