bally12345 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 My N40L is running all 4TB WD Reds and looking to swap the parity to 6TB WD Red and one array drive as I have no more bays available. Can I just confirm the steps to replace the drives. Should the parity be done first then followed by the disk in array? Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 35 minutes ago, bally12345 said: Should the parity be done first then followed by the disk in array? yes Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share Posted May 4, 2018 Are WD Reds still the hard drive of choice or iron wolf? Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 16 minutes ago, bally12345 said: Are WD Reds still the hard drive of choice or iron wolf? It's a matter of personal choice. Compare the specs, in some respects IronWolfs are superior. An uncorrectable error rate that's ten times better is a compelling virtue. Quote Link to comment
Connor Moloney Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Heres a benchmark comparison for you 1 Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 9 hours ago, Connor Moloney said: Heres a benchmark comparison for you Any differences there are mostly irrelevant for unRAID. Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted May 5, 2018 Author Share Posted May 5, 2018 Will be sticking with the WD Reds but at £167.99 each I really wish I had another spare bay instead of taking out the perfectly functioning 4tb drive. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
Connor Moloney Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 On 5/5/2018 at 12:15 AM, John_M said: Any differences there are mostly irrelevant for unRAID. Yes true the ironwolf coming out on top by just a few MB/s and if you really need extra MB/s you would probably be looking at different drives anyway Quote Link to comment
Connor Moloney Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 On 5/5/2018 at 9:42 AM, bally12345 said: Will be sticking with the WD Reds but at £167.99 each I really wish I had another spare bay instead of taking out the perfectly functioning 4tb drive. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Keep hold of it, you may be able to find a use for it in a different build or something. You could also sell it on the forums here to make some money back on it towards the new drive Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Hang onto it as a spare drive. That way, you can can use it as a replacement if you have a data drive fail. (I have spare 3TB drive that is ready to go if any of my drives should fail. Long term strategy will be to make the next drive purchase a 6TB drive to allow for an ordering expansion of server capacity.) Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 Would like to like to convert my desktop to a unraid machine as it got 10 bays but it has an old Asus p5k which only has 6 sata ports. Flip side is the q6600 cpu is much better than what's in the n40l Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 So consider using the case (and perhaps, the PS). I took a very quick look at that MB and the last BIOS update was 2008. I would suspect that the MB from the n40L would fit in the case. (Usually, it is extra large boards in the smaller cases that give problems.) Most of the cases have so many drilled-and-tapped mounting holes that virtually any MB will fit. However, I would also seriously consider looking for some sort of hot-plug drive mounting arrangement as when the number of drives rises so do problems with unseating SATA connectors when HD's require replacement. Quote Link to comment
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