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Are your drives WD Red, Red Plus, or Red Pro? Not that it should matter, just curious. To add another anectode, I’ve been running a 12TB and a 6TB WD Red Pro (
by spectre3d 3y ago
Are your drives WD Red, Red Plus, or Red Pro? Not that it should matter, just curious.
To add another anectode, I’ve been running a 12TB and a 6TB WD Red Pro (both CMR) in my Synology without issues (knock on wood) for 16 and 38 months respectively. I recently added an 18TB Seagate Exos and a 16TB WD Ultrastar, which are also both CMR and are intended for data centers (with twice the MTBF of Ironwolf or Red Pro). The enterprise drives are quite a bit louder, but since the NAS isn’t within earshot it’s not a problem.
The NAS runs 24/7 as a Home Assistant and Plex server, as well as handling backups from machines on my LAN. So far, so good, but I’m not kidding myself about eventual drive failure. I know it’ll happen at some point.
WDDA analytics are not turned on. Don’t need to see a pointless warning at the 3-year mark.