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I use FreeNAS with WD Red (non-same) drives and everything works fine. Guessing you used some WD software.

by wil421 4y ago

hoofhearted 4y ago
Yea, WD makes really good enterprise and NAS grade drives lol.. However back in 2012, we had a laptop that died with about 3 months worth of work gone. I ran out to Microcenter and bought 2 of the WD MyCloud NAS devices. It was like a mini Linux machine with a single NAS drive and an Ethernet port. They worked great for about a month; but they lacked the ability to do auto backups of themselves to another spare MyCloud device. We initially had a quick SOP on how to copy/paste the primary drive to the secondary drive, but the drives became out of sync within a month. Our primary MyCloud device locked up within a month and bricked the drive. We were SOL once again, and only had a semi copy on the backup drive. I bought a pc case, a supermicro board with ECC memory on eBay, and 4 WD Red NAS drives. Problem was solved, and I destroyed the MyCloud devices lol.. WD wasn’t really concerned either when I contacted them. I must say, Tom Lawerence of Lawerence Systems on YouTube was one of the biggest aids for us when we were setting up and scaling our large it systems. https://youtu.be/vxFNBZIAClc https://youtu.be/vxFNBZIAClc
- doublepg23 4y ago
  Tom Lawerence is a treasure, such a fantastic channel.
- kstrauser 4y ago
  > WD makes really good enterprise and NAS grade drives Well, sort of, as long as you're extremely careful about what you buy from them: https://honeypot.net/post/staying-away-from-wd-nas-drives-for-now/ https://honeypot.net/post/staying-away-from-wd-nas-drives-fo...
  - wil421 4y ago
    Yikes look like auto correct turned non-smr turned into non-same. Luckily I won the lotto on 4TB WD Red drives and got the CMR ones.
tyfon 4y ago
I've had 5x4TB WD Reds for about 10 years, I did have to replace one at some point but my synology supported hotswapping it and restoring everything. Have not had an issue with the others, would buy those drives again :)

I use FreeNAS with WD Red (non-same) drives and everything works fine. Guessing you used some WD software.

by wil421 4y ago

I use FreeNAS with WD Red (non-same) drives and everything works fine. Guessing you used some WD software.

Yea, WD makes really good enterprise and NAS grade drives lol.. However back in 2012, we had a laptop that died with about 3 months worth of work gone. I ran out to Microcenter and bought 2 of the WD MyCloud NAS devices. It was like a mini Linux machine with a single NAS drive and an Ethernet port. They worked great for about a month; but they lacked the ability to do auto backups of themselves to another spare MyCloud device. We initially had a quick SOP on how to copy/paste the primary drive to the secondary drive, but the drives became out of sync within a month. Our primary MyCloud device locked up within a month and bricked the drive. We were SOL once again, and only had a semi copy on the backup drive. I bought a pc case, a supermicro board with ECC memory on eBay, and 4 WD Red NAS drives. Problem was solved, and I destroyed the MyCloud devices lol.. WD wasn’t really concerned either when I contacted them. I must say, Tom Lawerence of Lawerence Systems on YouTube was one of the biggest aids for us when we were setting up and scaling our large it systems. https://youtu.be/vxFNBZIAClc https://youtu.be/vxFNBZIAClc

doublepg23 4y ago
Tom Lawerence is a treasure, such a fantastic channel.
kstrauser 4y ago
> WD makes really good enterprise and NAS grade drives Well, sort of, as long as you're extremely careful about what you buy from them: https://honeypot.net/post/staying-away-from-wd-nas-drives-for-now/ https://honeypot.net/post/staying-away-from-wd-nas-drives-fo...
- wil421 4y ago
  Yikes look like auto correct turned non-smr turned into non-same. Luckily I won the lotto on 4TB WD Red drives and got the CMR ones.

tyfon 4y ago

I've had 5x4TB WD Reds for about 10 years, I did have to replace one at some point but my synology supported hotswapping it and restoring everything. Have not had an issue with the others, would buy those drives again :)