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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 o
by 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 agoTom 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 agoYikes 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.