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buster
on Nov 20, 2020
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An Introduction to ZFS
Strange. I have some WD disks in my qnap running 24/7 for 8 years now, without a single problem. I'm planning on reusing them in my new NAS..
puzzlingcaptcha
on Nov 20, 2020
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I have a WD Purple I bought in 2014 and it's been running continuously since. 18 months seems extremely short.
haltcatchfire
on Nov 20, 2020
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Isn't Purple for things like camera feeds? Good on writes, bad on reads.
puzzlingcaptcha
on Nov 20, 2020
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This seems to be the conventional wisdom but I can't say I've experienced it in practice. They have less cache than Reds and the firmware may be tuned for writes but I think it's mostly down to different market positioning/branding & price. You can compare the two:
https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
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https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
rewtraw
on Nov 20, 2020
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Same here, I have over a dozen WD Red drives with over 70,000 power on hours and all pass their SMART tests.
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