[Storage] NAS recommendation.

[Milo-Dino]

If you're thinking of getting the WD MBLD system. Please do not get it. Just to share a bad experience here. I have absolutely zero confidence in WD now after 3 hdds failed on me, both during the warranty period.

1 was a portable hdd. Fine, maybe I bumped it and it got damaged or something. I paid (dearly) for recovery once after all else failed..

So I changed it to the My Book Live Duo and set it on a RAID 1 setting. It went down while I was out of town. This is a combination of 2x3Tb hdds. On a RAID 1 setting, if one goes down, the other one should be ok right? No, this is the conclusion I got from a 1 month long ding-donging remote assistance troubleshooting. No, you can neither bring your hdds down for diagnostics nor will they provide any on site support. What they have is a drop off point and will not be able to do any form of diagnostics for you even if you bring your hdd down... during the warranty period.

The main point is that, even if they can replace you with a new hdd, seeing how reliable their hdds are, I'm not sure if you want to invest your time and effort on their products anymore. So now, I'm stuck with 2x3TB that cannot mount and potential loss of data wondering if I should consider data recovery... because WD fail me 3 consecutive hdds in a row.

that's strange, I never had any problems with WD hdd as compared to seagates

maybe i should use hitachi but not too sure if they have NAS ones.

 

[dinnosaur]

that's strange, I never had any problems with WD hdd as compared to seagates

maybe i should use hitachi but not too sure if they have NAS ones.

Some of my old hdds (and I have a range of brands) have served me well over 10 years and still in good working condition now. In the past, I was never quite picky about the brands since they were all pretty much ok. It surprised me too that I am so lucky to have 3 harddisks fail in such short durations. Either I am the very lucky 0.01% or old things just last better. But I'll probably stay clear of WD after 2 such occurrences, 3 hdds in these 2 years. I forsee selling off my MBLD set in the near future.

Hoping to find a better option here from the threads here...

 

[cty85]

i have had 2 wd drives fail on me so far, but 1 of them really is my fault. the other one i am not sure but it slowed down dramatically one day and decided to just die on me ( not so bad considering i have like 10+ wd drives)

the red one i had i didnt take care of it, single drive torrent drive + write and read abuse, simultaneous stress testing of the drive by copying/torrenting/moving at the same time, lost 10% of my data but the rest was ok. can use is can use la but have some redundancy just in case you know? all these mechanical drives themselves are not invincible. unless you use ssds la which potentially last longer under similiar use, but eventually die out also due to rewrite fatigue

 

[game goondu]

Most NAS do what you require.. Those are pretty basic features.

How fast were your old NAS growing in terms of disk usage? Do you want to consider a 4-bay, I mean since you are changing/upgrading...



Hmm... On a side note, what happened to the Storage thread? So much harder now to find/help in specific technology area...which makes me a bit lazy to read at all.

old one run out of space quite sometimes ago, need to delete off some movies... out of 660gb, only left 10gb.

not thinking of 4 bay as cost will be higher with the enclosure and 2 extra hdd. with my simple needs, i just want data protection by running raid 1 which i'm doing with my dlink,

 

[game goondu]

Hi I wouldn't recommend WD Reds. Some people may say they have no problems and then you have people like me who has RMA'ed WD Reds seven times over the past 3 months due to them falling out of the array because of SMART errors, bad sectors and making screeching, cracking sounds.

so bad the WD Reds har?
my dlink is WD green. i think running for more than 4 years without any problem..

i also know hdd are sometimes heng and suay thingly...

 

[game goondu]

Dear Ts,

i would recommend you 2 brands.

Asustor
ASUSTOR - Innovation Makes a Difference

Synology
https://www.synology.com/en-global/

Best regard,
JK

thanks for the recommendation. synology buy from where? asustor buy from where?

 

[game goondu]

Some of my old hdds (and I have a range of brands) have served me well over 10 years and still in good working condition now. In the past, I was never quite picky about the brands since they were all pretty much ok. It surprised me too that I am so lucky to have 3 harddisks fail in such short durations. Either I am the very lucky 0.01% or old things just last better. But I'll probably stay clear of WD after 2 such occurrences, 3 hdds in these 2 years. I forsee selling off my MBLD set in the near future.

Hoping to find a better option here from the threads here...

if u staying clear of WD, then what? seagate? hitachi?

 

[game goondu]

If you're thinking of getting the WD MBLD system. Please do not get it. Just to share a bad experience here. I have absolutely zero confidence in WD now after 3 hdds failed on me, both during the warranty period.

1 was a portable hdd. Fine, maybe I bumped it and it got damaged or something. I paid (dearly) for recovery once after all else failed..

So I changed it to the My Book Live Duo and set it on a RAID 1 setting. It went down while I was out of town. This is a combination of 2x3Tb hdds. On a RAID 1 setting, if one goes down, the other one should be ok right? No, this is the conclusion I got from a 1 month long ding-donging remote assistance troubleshooting. No, you can neither bring your hdds down for diagnostics nor will they provide any on site support. What they have is a drop off point and will not be able to do any form of diagnostics for you even if you bring your hdd down... during the warranty period.

The main point is that, even if they can replace you with a new hdd, seeing how reliable their hdds are, I'm not sure if you want to invest your time and effort on their products anymore. So now, I'm stuck with 2x3TB that cannot mount and potential loss of data wondering if I should consider data recovery... because WD fail me 3 consecutive hdds in a row.

the above is not true meh?
i thought for Raid 1, can easily remove the spoilt hdd and put in the same capacity new hdd and "rebuilt" the raid 1?

 

[isaacfok]

the above is not true meh?
i thought for Raid 1, can easily remove the spoilt hdd and put in the same capacity new hdd and "rebuilt" the raid 1?

Yeah RAID 1 is supposed to provide data protection by mirror one HDD to another. So in the event of a HDD failure, you need to replace the faulty HDD and rebuild the RAID group. Could it be a problem with the NAS itself if the RAID group cannot be rebuilt?

 

[game goondu]

Yeah RAID 1 is supposed to provide data protection by mirror one HDD to another. So in the event of a HDD failure, you need to replace the faulty HDD and rebuild the RAID group. Could it be a problem with the NAS itself if the RAID group cannot be rebuilt?

that y i ask why cannot rebuild...

anyway, has anyone rebuilt a spoilt hdd in raid 1 config?

 

[MightyPigeon]

It is dumb for me to put 2x 500gb and 2x 1tb in a 4 bay NAS? Would it restrict RAID options?

 

[jtjt00]

It is dumb for me to put 2x 500gb and 2x 1tb in a 4 bay NAS? Would it restrict RAID options?

It depend on what capacity & raid system you want.
Of course, the 500gb drive will limit your capacity.