hello,
i opened that time ago… on the old forum…
Just wondering… if there some new “updates” on that?
thanks!
Are you still looking at the 18TB size? SATA or SAS, it might make a difference in recommendations?
I haven’t heard anything bad about different drives except stay away from SMR. Just confirm that.
I don’t really know what an “update” could be…
There are about three manufacturers (WD, Seagate and Toshiba, WD possibly still having two different engineering teams, its own and HGST), all of which ultimately source their platters from Showa Denko. That’s not much to choose from, and definitely not enough for customers to have the luxury of trimming down their list of approved sellers.
Get whatever NAS-grade drive has the best price per TB at the moment.
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hello,
18tb SATA
@etorix thanks for the update.
I just referenced old / wrong thread … this is the one:
so as you can see; that Exos were removed from the RAID and then the issue disappeared.
Then someone pointed to the following
thats why there was my concert regarding the EXOS.
I am currently running Raidz1 and want to migrate to raidz2 ie 4x18TB
Thanks!
and also these two
I have EXOS drives, load_cycle_count is rated for something like 600,000 on the drives, not exactly worried. Still not sure what your specific question is/ They work fine.
@sfatula was just not sure… or better to say… i though comparing to WD hgst…
seagate its cheaper by 100 bucks… in such a case i think i should mix 2xwd hgst + 2x exos into raidz2.
needles to say… i had that issue with exos… which disappeared.
If you don’t trust Exos, I would just go with another choice. You will always be questioning the Exos, if you have them.
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@SmallBarky in case ppl confirm these are fine or it doesnt matter… i should be fine with exos.
Nothing wrong with that as well.
“Long TLER” is only an issue with consumer drives or shucked “white label” drives, not with NAS/enterprise drives. And it is solved by issuing a command.
@etorix so in case esox has long tler, it means its not nas/enterprise one? thanks
As long as it’s not SMR.
(Of course you could argue, but not with WD, that SMR is not NAS-grade)
hello,
I meant Seagate Exos X18 Hard Drive | Seagate US
not SMR.