WD Red for 8 drive RAID 10 array?

Evil-I

Evil-I

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Hi All,

Have a data server running 8 x Seagate ES2 1tb drives in RAID 10 and am considering upgrading drives to 3Tb WD reds as the Seagates are starting to fail regularly and they aren't available new any more.

I know in theory the reds are only rated up to 5 drives in an array, but I can't see them being too much of an issue and don't really want to pay the massive premium for the full enterprise equivalent?

I also find it odd that in our 10 bay Synology NAS devices Synology tested and approved the reds for use in those chassis. We have 3 x 10 bay NAS running the reds with no issues so far.

The installed LSI/3ware 9650 Raid card after the recent driver and firmware update I've applied, will support the 3 and 4Tb drives and once installed (one at a time) LSI support can provide a low level script I can run that will then resize the array to make use of the extra drive space. All non-destructively.....

Seems a bit of a no brainer to me....

What do you think!

Thanks,

E-I
 
Sounds like a good shout.

For business use I would stick to es drives or wd enterprise but sure red would be ok
 
This may help the decision, interesting article on reliability of drives for a data center that currently has 28k consumer grade drives spinning
 
wow now that puts Seacrate in to perspective doesn't it. I wonder if they were that bad before they acquired Crapsotr ermm I mean Maxtor.

Hitachi all the way even if they do cost a couple of quid more.
 
I bought an Asustor AS-604T last Christmas and stuck 4 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 4TB's in it. I also have another in my pc and its fast and so far reliable.
Can't fault them, I'll be getting some more soon :)
 
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