Re: Large >1TB drives in GOS unit
 

E X A C T L Y !

sadly :nono:

Re: Large >1TB drives in GOS unit
 

I am using Seagate 1Tb ES.2 drives in a Synology unit. After a disk upgrade this crashed catastrophically. From the Synology forums it seems that a significant number of people are having problems with 1Tb plus drives in certain Synology units. Seagate have released new firmware for the ES.2 drives seemingly because of problems with these drives in Raid setups. WD users have also reported problems with certain WD drives in Synology units.

In short it seems that it isn't just with GOS units. There seems to be general issues with large drives and raid arrays and the manufacturers of Raid systems and disk drives seem to still be working through these. These problems aren't down to hardware issues, but seem due to software issues and issues that cause controllers to think a disk is faulty when it is not.

Re: Large >1TB drives in GOS unit
 

It's been quite a while but in the last three years with WD black drives running in raid 5/6 arrays 40 drives no failures. Seagates (no I don't know the models ) 8 drives with 3 failures. IBM's 2.5" sas server drives 24 drives with 3 failures. HP 2.5" sas server drives 24 drives with 2 failures. On the other hand WD green drives die regularily in desktops that came equiped with them. As I said I guess I'm just lucky with the black drives.

Re: Large >1TB drives in GOS unit
 

It would be my suggestion to HarryC and anyone using the WD green drives to turn off the intellipark feature on these drives. It seems to kill them quick. Search the web for wdidle3.exe.

Re: Large >1TB drives in GOS unit
 

Thanks for the tip!

Although i don't use any WD Green drives at this moment in time (i have a few RE4's etc) but having searched for some info on this "wdidle" issue, i found a lot of interesting and usefull info and links that will most likely come in very handy in the future.

From what i have just read (all be it in no great detail yet) it does appear to be a contributing factor to premature failure.

As much as it's nice not to waste power, i value my data and the longevity of the drives more.

Thank you for the info.

Also, my thanks to HarryC for the update on how his WD Black drives have been performing over the last couple of years. I've never been much of a fan of WD drives but i do own some. For the past few months (maybe years now, time flies), i have aquired a few more WD drives in the collection and admittedly i have had no issues with them. Mostly they have been RE versions however. I'm liking the build quality of the newer WD's more than the older ones but i have read good and bad for most drive manufactures so at the moment i'm keeping an open mind for all makes and models.

I do think it's good that you have come back and kept people updated. The proof of the pudding is always in the eating they say!