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I received mine last week. The individual drives do not have a warranty, only the enclosure. WD says if a drive fails they need the enclosure SN and drive SN and they will replace. I will test today to see if drive can be read outside the enclosure. I suspect that it is just a regular, standard WD 8TB helium filled drive. Someone else I know got 2 from different vendors and all his 6 drives each have their own 2 year warranty which is different from mine marked as OEM.

Amazon has the WD My Book Duo 16TB external setup for $500 shipped. These have two 8TB WD Red drives in them, and the warranty still applies after the drives are removed from the enclosure (Update: this isn't true, as mine are marked OEM when a friend's 6 drives all have their own warranty) as you can use the drive's SN to check warranty on WD.com. That's $250 for a WD Red 8TB drive that's normally $330+ right now. That is a deal if I've ever seen one. https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU

Oh yeah, basements are perfect for servers as long as they're not super humid.

You keep it 68F all the time? I'd need a 2nd job to pay for that electric bill!

And what is the room temp?

The i5-6600k is 3.5gHz, but you're paying for it being unlocked for overclockers. Since you won't be doing that I don't see any reason to pay that premium. And it also does not include a HSF.

Not to mention keeps power use to a minimum with integrated graphics.

That thing has 4 power supplies with tiny fans, and that is likely where all the noise is coming from. Those small fans have to move fairly quickly to move any decent amount of air.

<< Learning this the hard way.

I have a 6TB white label drive from GoHardDrive that has been failing tests left and right. I'll exchange first, but if the 2nd disk is the same I'll return for a refund. Certainly not inspiring confidence.

I ran another SMART long test (but for some reason the status report is showing it was a short test) and it failed with 10% remaining and the entire log page is nothing but errors. Tried another two short tests and both failed. I'll tray another SATA cable and another power cable and another motherboard port.

What is that supposed to accomplish? Why would formatting it on my PC fix all the problems?

Tried to clear a White Label 6TB drive and I'm getting tons of errors. First I tried with the disk in a hot-swap bay. Got a bunch of I/O errors during the first preclear and the drive disappeared from unRAID's web interface. I thought it was cable/bay related so I moved it out of the cage and hooked it directly to the mobo on a different SATA port and a different SATA cable. Kicked off another preclear test and the drive disappeared from unRAID like it did during the first preclear. If there's a language I can use to highlight for Pastebin let me know and I'll repaste to get syntax highlighting. PasteBin Server Log SMART status report. The SMART errors are from the first preclear when the drive was in the cage. What do you guys think? Send the drive back for a replacement?

What kind of temps are you seeing for the drives during a parity check?

I have 3 of these in my server as well and I use 1 molex and 2 SATA per cage.

The Amazon page only says there's 3 HD 3.5" slots. How many have you seen in there?

What an amazing price, that's less than $25/TB.

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Theory doesn't always work in the real world Best is to test your actual network.

If the SSD can read at 500MB/s that will likely be higher than your network can deliver. I have never been able to get anything remotely close to those numbers and my server is a few feet from my PC. Do you have any way to test this idea before buying the SSD?

1TB is pretty huge for a cache drive. Will you need that much space in a single day? When I'm moving to the server it's always under 50GB in a day, so I could get away with a much smaller cache drive.

Is it ever possible to get the same price form Newegg's Ebay store? I have Ebay GCs.

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Parity checks already take over 12 hours with a 6TB drive, I can only imagine how long one of these 8TB drives would take. You could make a pretty compact server with a few of these drives though.

My server doesn't have USB3, just imagine how long 3 preclear rounds would take at ~20MB/s