Hey Unkyjoe. When the drive is failing the files it needs to take off of the drive. where does them files go to if you don't have enough space on the storage pool to copy the data over? I'm guessing you need to add another storage drive to the pool for that?
There's a lot of 3TB SAS drives on Ebay right now really cheap, or for a little bit more get a SATA Dell branded Constellation ES.3 with 128MB cache. I've been collecting those for my Xpenology system. Make sure to put the latest firmware on them as the old er firmwares can lead to premature drive failure. I had to download the old Dell nautilus program and remove the old firmware and copy the ES.3 firmware from the other utility into it and flash them from dos. Worked great and these drives have a really fast sustained rate.
@Scott Luther It's fairly important on SSDs as they tend to revise the write algorithm over time to make them last longer. Some Intel and SK Hynix SSDs can fail suddenly and without warning without being on the latest firmware.
Hi, can I ask you a question? I was given a Dell PowerEdge r710, it's a single CPU, but I am in China so I have to change it to English and no one knows the password to sign in. I want to use it for storing my music on and movies, multimedia server storage, is this worth spending the money on? I can get the r720 and r730 or non-r version but the xd versions which makes 12 bays on each model. SAS drives are really expensive here so can I use SATA drives, but keep the two small 300gb enterprise drives for the operation of the machine. it not going to running 24 - 7 as I have 8tb drives. are the xd better having the 12 bays a possing to 8 bays, or do I need both? or should I buy a big desktop computer?
GoHardDrive has awesome customer service as i bet you bought from them, I have 48x4TB White Label Enterprise drives (80 USD each) from them for my storage, RMA process is awesome if you ever need to return a drive in the time frame, all they ask is the SN to check their DB, you ship the drive and they send you a new one they even give you free return shipping, might wanna save the box/etc the drive came in
There is file and folder duplication that spreads data across multiple drives, and backups of your data will help guard against data loss and not much else. Thanks for watching :)
