<div dir="auto">One of the things I have been hearing about is to stay away from Shingled media recording (SMR) disk drives. Apparently they perform poorly in raid configurations. Unfortunately not all vendors indicate if the hard drive is SMR or not.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun., Mar. 7, 2021, 6:46 p.m. Ron Singh, <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Live by the ABS rule -- A)nything B)ut S)eagate. WD's failure rate is much better than Seagates. HGST fails the least. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">These days, WD owns the HGST HDD lines, renamed as WD Red Pro. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I run an 8-drive QNAP NAS box with 8 pcs of 4TB HGST drives, slow ones, 5200-ish RPM, SAF, but low-power. I never let them spin down and have not had a failure since they have been in use since 2013.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Today's 4TB 7200RPM WD RED PRO stuff:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd#WD4003FFBX" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd#WD4003FFBX</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We have tons of these 4TB, 8TB and 10TB in service, never had one go bad in Raid5/Raid6/Raid50 in QNAP and Synology NAS boxes.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 6:31 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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2 of my harddisks are failing, so I need to buy something fairly
soon. Has Seagate improved their quality? Or, should I go with
Western Digital as I usually do?<br>
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