I bought some NAS drives a few years ago that failed miserably
It turns out they were SMR NAS drives that weren’t compatible.
It there any decent drives around anymore, since AI seems to have gobbles them up.
When in stock for me, it is cheaper (with current prices) to get like two 10 TB drives. Maybe scale the capacity & live with a mirror instead of having three drives?
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How well does Mirror work in raid with TrueNAS?
can you just add a third drive later for a z1 raid with redundancy?
Also, what about seagate/WD RED, WD Blue, Toshiba N300? and others?
How well does Mirror work in raid with TrueNAS? -
Mirror is a form of RAID (Its called RAID 1 in other systems)
can you just add a third drive later for a z1 raid with redundancy?
Nope - you cannot convert RAID type
Also, what about seagate/WD RED, WD Blue, Toshiba N300? and others?
Anything as long as its not SMR. WD Pro, Tosh N300 are all goodWD Blue may be SMR, also these are dekstop drives. Not really designed for 24*7 ops
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Seagate Ironwolf and Exos, Toshiba N300 and MG, WD Red Plus/Pro and Gold (NAS/Enterprise) are all known good NAS drives.
Drives over 8 TB are generally all CMR (there are some Data Centre drives which are SMR, but you’d have to look hard to find them in the first place).
Smaller capacity drives in the WD Red range should be checked carefully, as there’s a sneaky nix of SMR and CMR in there.