Thus, the pulse is down again. I have long struggled with me to create this panel - I needed more space in my NAS. Nearly two years (14,500 hours, according to SMART, a panel A has reported CRC error - that's to abnormalities in two years) have two WD Red 2TB Western Digital WD20EFRX Red 2TB Internal Hard Drive for NAS storage (8.9 cm (3, 5 inches), 5400rpm, SATA III) here harmless and unobtrusive their service done in RAID 1, so why not from the new series ... The previous reviews have made me suspicious, however, by striking many problems was the speech, however, mainly in QNAP devices. So, I have a Synology NAS Synology DiskStation DS213 + NAS Server (2x1GHz, 512MB RAM, 2-Bay, SATA II, 2x USB 3.0) and I order from Amazon - what should happen to me?!? If it begins to encounter errors, Amazon is as gratifying easily. First only one plate was needed which should run without any problems, until I buy a second. The delivery with Amazon Prime has used four days - well. But the plate arrived. In the box, however, a lot has moved to the filler colleague namely quite good savings in shipping! The plate came in addition to the original WD-plastic packaging and sealed it in an antistatic bag. After a short acclimatization I have hung on a USB-SATA adapter to make a first test. Turning - nothing happens? When you lift up the plate then I have probably noticed that it is running! She is very quiet, even during start-up. The 2TB Seagate drive in my Apple Time Capsule 2TB (wireless network storage and AirPort Extreme Base Station) just like the Seagate Expansion External Hard Drive 2TB Desktop STBV2000200 (8.9 cm (3.5 inches), USB 3.0) "scream" at start-up briefly (sounds a bit like Darth Vader's TIE Fighter). Here at the WD-RED: Nix to hear. Hardly vibrations felt. With accesses no unpleasant noise. So far: Thumbs up! SMART did not work with the USB adapter-fuss, so I have the plate thrown boldly into the current NAS. Hot-plug should Synology yes can. Plate 2 simply pull out, remounting the plates in the frame and shove the new 6TB. Finished! No 5 minutes for the Hardware history. In Memory Manager of DSM then auditing and preparing the board and then repair the RAID volume trigger. No problems, everything fluppt. Well - fluppen is not the right word - to repair the RAID volume has (1,74TB reflect data from disk 1 to the new disk) lasted eight hours. A short SMART check: everything is normal. The long SMART check I wanted to let run overnight, which I have but underestimated: The ran 16 hours !!! The panel is holding quite large - you have to bring your patience. Result: Easily. No dropouts, no warnings. Geil! The plate is a little warmer than the old 2TB drive that has currently namely 23 ° C, the new 6TB reports 27 ° C. Still: Cool thing. The days when you could burn your fingers on plates, definitely over. The fan in Synology is "quieter than colder Dear" mode in - but these temperatures are more than fine. From the speed I can not say anything - internally it is intended to provide the data sheet 175MB / s, in which case the Gigabit Ethernet NAS system limited rather than the board, the Synology provides "only" scarce 100MB / s. So enough of this!
In a week or two if nothing extraordinary occurs, the new board then gets a matching sister, so I also can use the space, which is newly available. I will expand the review if there is any news.
Until then, the conclusion: no problems occurred, installation problems, disk quiet and cold and mainly: huge lot of space!
Edit: Update after 300 hours: zero defects. The second plate is now there. The way was packaged differently! She was not in the transparent plastic bag in it, but "only" in the anti-static bag, but firmly packed with two plastic moldings in a box - as wobbled nothing. Very good and confidence-System! But whether this is always so - no idea.
Edit2: Update after 800 hours zero defects. The second plate is comically 2 ° C colder than the first built. But what is remarkable: The Load Cycle Counter is after 400 hours operation on 332, with the now almost 800 hours running first plate still at 58. Apparently, the two plates are configured despite identical firmware differently on the NAS should not be in my opinion that a drive goes to sleep more often than the other ... When the linearly continues, keeps the "newer" plate only grossed 91 years until the Load CycleCounter stands at 600,000 - and then, according to WD, a failure is likely: - / So worried quite as I am not, but that the two behave differently, is already a little weird.
Edit3: Latest update: The load-cycle counter of the newer disk has not increased linearly. And without any further action. Funny, but ok. The 2 ° temperature difference between the plates have remained - measurement inaccuracy or actual difference? I can not tell you. I do not now also totally peng. Here is a comparison of the current SMART data (disk 1 was replaced later!): Plate 1: Power-On Hours: 744H / Load Cycle: 359 / Start-Stop Cycle: 69 / temperature: 24 ° C Plate 2: Power-On Hours: 1078h / Load Cycle: 85 / Start-Stop Cycle: 81 / temperature: 26 ° C No other abnormalities or errors. Fine plates. The first of the two "old" plates has now supplied a new provision, the second still remains with the "old" data from the NAS as a backup. The time intervals of Nachschnüffelns are now probably bigger. But I keep the times here in ...
Edit4: All good. 3 months in operation. Error: 0.0. The second backup disk is installed in the external USB 3.0 enclosure and now migrates toward backup medium for NAS's. 'm Now not too worried more. Here is a comparison of the current SMART data (disk 1 was replaced later!): Plate 1: Power-On Hours: 1364h / Load Cycle: 455 / Start-Stop Cycle: 164 / temperature: 24 ° C Plate 2: Power-On Hours: 1697h / Load Cycle: 181 / Start-Stop Cycle: 176 / temperature: 27 ° C
