mathomas3 Posted July 1, 2020 Posted July 1, 2020 Hello, Wanted to gather your thoughts on a little plan that I have... Plan is to chuck a seagate drive after preclearing it twice... and after which doing a one time copy of data to it... Plan is to replace one of my full HDDs with the chucked drive and then use the non chucked drive as a "new" data drive... The process that I think that would work easiest is to 1. remove Drive 1 (to be replaced drive) 2. Start array to have it "see" a missing/failed drive 3. stop array and assign chucked drive in it's place 4. start array and have it rebuild the chucked drive 5. stop array and assign Drive 1 as a new data drive The goal of this is to assume that this chucked drive is "weak" and to give this drive the best chances to surviving, write all 8tb of data to it at one time... so the rest of it's life is spent just reading data and not writing it... Does this logic hold water? have any of you done this before? I just cant ignore the fact that this drive was half the cost of a normal WD red(which I have had good luck with) BTW since moving to only Reds I havent had a HDD fail on me in over 1.5 years now... normally for me I would have 1 or 2 die in that time... so am i going down that path again of failure or does this little trick of mine have some hope... Thanks for any input you have Mat Quote
whipdancer Posted July 1, 2020 Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) That should work. One thing to be aware of is the type of drive you can get when shucking externals. Anything below 10TB or so has a high chance of being an SMR drive. The SMR drives have worked fine for me, but only write at about 30mb/s (I think) - which is fine for backing up my movies and my dvr, but not so good if you are doing a lot of writing and reading from the disk. Edited July 1, 2020 by whipdancer updated comment Quote
mathomas3 Posted July 1, 2020 Author Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) 18 minutes ago, whipdancer said: That should work. One thing to be aware of is the type of drive you can get when shucking externals. Anything below 10TB or so has a high chance of being an SMR drive. The SMR drives have worked fine for me, but only write at about 30mb/s (I think) - which is fine for backing up my movies and my dvr, but not so good if you are doing a lot of writing and reading from the disk. We use our drives the same... I just wanted to write to the disk one time and get that part over with... before when I was using WD greens... I would have a high failure rate with them... Im hoping that using this method will yield better results... at one time I had 3 6tb drives... All failed.. and to this day I have 2 5tb still up and running... strange these HDDS are... I have had good luck with 8tb drives though... havent had a single one go bad yet. Edited July 1, 2020 by mathomas3 Quote
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