I'm out of space and out of money. I have a 8 x 4TB NAS using SnapRAID which is almost entirely used for static local storage/backup as well as backing up to cloud.
The Seagate BarraCuda ST8000DM004 is an SMR drive and is 2/3 the price of the equivalent CMR drive. This adds up to a significant amount of cash over 8 drives and wondering if CMR is even that valuable given the workload of my SnapRAID NAS.
Guess my real question is, how have these drives gone for 24/7 operation? My NAS is UPS protected as well as the drives well cooled with 120mm fans.
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Those drives aren't too bad, not great though, for large files, but they seriously suck for bluray structures due to the small file sizes.
I've moved to only buying hitachi & WD refurbished enterprise drives. They have always been rock solid, lightning fast, and relatively cheap. I just purchased a 10TB for $130 and a 12TB for $160. Sometimes they'll be SAS, but SATA can be had at generally the same prices.
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I likely won't be accessing any files on this NAS directly on a regular basis. This NAS is basically a means to keep all my data together locally with some form of redundancy/protection in the form of SnapRAID parity and backup to cloud.
Most of the files I work with are stored locally on my PC (2 x 4TB drives) and then selectively synced to the this NAS overnight.
Just read an article that Dropbox is now using all SMR drives which is fairly encouraging albeit at a somewhat different scale to what I am operating at.
Decided to go ahead and make the purchase while all the sales are still on. 24TB usable to 48TB is going to be quite the jump.
Last edit: Dominic Ryan 2021-12-07
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Hi All,
I'm out of space and out of money. I have a 8 x 4TB NAS using SnapRAID which is almost entirely used for static local storage/backup as well as backing up to cloud.
The Seagate BarraCuda ST8000DM004 is an SMR drive and is 2/3 the price of the equivalent CMR drive. This adds up to a significant amount of cash over 8 drives and wondering if CMR is even that valuable given the workload of my SnapRAID NAS.
Guess my real question is, how have these drives gone for 24/7 operation? My NAS is UPS protected as well as the drives well cooled with 120mm fans.
Those drives aren't too bad, not great though, for large files, but they seriously suck for bluray structures due to the small file sizes.
I've moved to only buying hitachi & WD refurbished enterprise drives. They have always been rock solid, lightning fast, and relatively cheap. I just purchased a 10TB for $130 and a 12TB for $160. Sometimes they'll be SAS, but SATA can be had at generally the same prices.
Thanks David,
I likely won't be accessing any files on this NAS directly on a regular basis. This NAS is basically a means to keep all my data together locally with some form of redundancy/protection in the form of SnapRAID parity and backup to cloud.
Most of the files I work with are stored locally on my PC (2 x 4TB drives) and then selectively synced to the this NAS overnight.
Just read an article that Dropbox is now using all SMR drives which is fairly encouraging albeit at a somewhat different scale to what I am operating at.
Decided to go ahead and make the purchase while all the sales are still on. 24TB usable to 48TB is going to be quite the jump.
Last edit: Dominic Ryan 2021-12-07