as posted elsewhere... one of the [SATA] SSDs in my NAS has kicked the bucket and i'm mulling over what the best course of action is... Current Drives - RAID 1 - 2x Seagate Ironwolf, 4TB [SATA, Spiny rust] Raid 1, acting as tiered storage for the above - 1x Seagate Ironwolf 125, 1TB [SATA, SSD] 1x Seagate Ironwolf 110, 960GB [SATA, SSD] <-- The Dead Drive Why are the SSDs mismatched? well it was originally a pair of 110s, but the first one died and was replaced under warranty with the 125. The second, and now also dead, 110 is out of warranty, so swapping it under warranty is out. Seagate no longer seem to sell/make the 125, so just buying another one to replace the 110 is out. So... if you were me, what would you do? Replace the dead SSD and [continue to] live with the NAS moaning about the mis-match Replace both SSDs Something else.
Is the NAS complaining about the different models or the fact that they are slightly different capacity?
I mean right now one of the drives is toast so it's whinging about that... But prior to that it was whinging about the mis-matched capacity... it wouldn't let me do certain things as a result [like set them as read/write cache, though it did let me use them for tiered storage... which is causing its own problems now a drive is dead] All the drives are/were seagate so idk if it'll whinge about mixed makes
You should be fine with different models with the same capacity, so I'd purchase another 1TB SSD. It's generally recommended with spinny rust in particular to mix models anway, prevent ending up with 2 drives from the same batch. I have a 1TB SATA SDD lying around if you want me to send it for you to test?
View attachment 88942 No I'm good... just a matter of deciding between a WD Red or Samsun as a replacement now
That's what the currents SSDs are... and they no longer appear to be for sale, only the rust spinners... hence the quandary.
if you fancy a read @RedFlames https://nascompares.com/guide/black-friday-nas-hard-drive-buyers-guide/ one day I might learn to read that u was using an SSD
I know that article is from a few years ago but 'wait until tat friday' was also at the back of my mind...
Depending on your feeling on used enterprise drives you would look at things like Toshiba (THNSN81Q92CSE)
Bit spendier than i'm able to facilitate right now... but i have considered used enterprise fodder in the past...
3520TBW endurance ain't too bad! I mostly use enterprise spinning rust and SSDs for their reliability and cost. It's cheaper to buy in bulk and have some spares on hand. That and with a 15-wide disk shelf I get SSD-like read speeds for large files. Anyway, definitely recommend both enterprise equipment and bargainhardware.co.uk
Ambition exceeds budget, and space... This 4-bay QNAP is what i have to work with so for now it'll have to do.
