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by brokenmachine 3439 days ago
I wouldn't use those 8Tb shingle drives for a NAS. In fact, that use is specifically mentioned as being not under warranty if I remember correctly.

Also, if (when) a drive fails and you have to resilver 8Tb of data on one of those drives, the slow write speed will kill you.
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tracker1 3439 days ago
The WD Red drives are expressly for NAS usage. Also, I'm aware of the slow redistribution of data. Generally there's only 0-2 connections on the NAS I have now, I just want more room. It's mostly BD/DVD rips, so if it dies, I can recover, it just takes a while. Reduced performance for a few days or a week isn't a huge deal for me.
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brokenmachine 3439 days ago
> The WD Red drives are expressly for NAS usage.

Oh, I was thinking about the cheaper Seagate "Archive" drives which have really slow write speed because of that shingled technology.

> Reduced performance for a few days or a week isn't a huge deal for me.

It could be a huge deal when another drive fails during that week while the array is rebuilding. But if you have more hot spares it's no big deal.

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