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Discuss what hard drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) will work the best with your NAS, including vendor-specific technologies and benchmarks.
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I have a DS216j, for which I want to replace the HDDs with SSDs. So I would prefer the new WD Red SSD SA500, but they are not on the...
We will be "formatting / writing / shipping UPS ground across the U.S. / then reading" 6-8TB data. This cycle will repeat 4-6 times per year...
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-addresses-smr-controversy-with-new-red-plus-hard-drives
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Synology NVR1218 with WD 4TB Purple 5400 rpm already installed and working fine, but I'm going to add new drive WD Purple 1TB.
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Prediction: CMR prices will increase.
from my 2 days research I have better overview, what HDD was created with CMR and what with SMR technology (not only for NASes). Seems to be two...
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Western Digital Lawsuit For Shipping Slower SMR Hard Drives Including...
here is a list from official Seagate site with a definition which disk uses what kind of recording technology
I miss Part Numbers of the disk...
Still working out how much storage I will go for in my NAS. If it's 16TB in the NAS, I can back up to a 16TB regular USB HDD drive HDD - seems...
Here you can see current status of Seagate Exos series, follow my research (May 7th 2020) from official sources - Seagate product list, Seagate...
Here you can see current status of Seagate Exos series, follow my research (May 7th 2020) from official sources - Seagate product list, Seagate...
this scientific source by Henry Wong will help you better understand why HDD geometry is important to your operation model
It appears that WD has stepped away from EFRX/EFAX and now offers a new naming convention for retail NAS (red) drives. For example...
While exploring the WD site, I ran across this patch utility (dated 2013) which"modifies the behavior of the drive to wait longer before...
there is no doubt, that RED vs IronWolf lines have similar basic performance specification (Max. Sustained Transfer Rate)
when IronWolf has 7200...
Here you can see current status of Western Digital Ultrastar series (formerly HGST) , follow my research (May 6th 2020) from official sources - WD...
when you need to be sure, that you will get performance from your HDD in NAS, you can take Seagate Exos X series (previously known as...
Toshiba
Official: Use of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology in Toshiba Consumer Hard Drives
April 28, 2020
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
The introduction of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology has enabled HDD...
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- how to simple measure a performance of your disk(s) in NAS
- how to setup LAN related performance for your disk setup
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