NAS Destroying HDD's

[alex32165]

Hello. I have a NAS device that acts as a realtime backup device for our Oracle server. It has 2 HDD's inside set up on RAID 0. The backup script is writing new data to the NAS about every 5 minutes all day everyday. Even with NAS rated HDD's inside, we find that we have to replace one of the drives about every year. I know video surveillance system HDD's are rated for 24/7 data capture. Would those same drives be suitable in my NAS system?

 

[tek9]

First of all: RAID 0 as a backup? I don't think that's a good idea.
Second: Which NAS device are you using? What type of hard drives?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yeah....a major at RAID 0
And what make/model NAS hardware. Consider WD Red drives? What current make/model drives are being used..that are eaten up?

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Yep, at least go to raid 1 for the mirrored raid, that way if you have a crash on your oracle box and a drive goes out, you aren't stuck.

 

[Borges]

Not wanting to poke another hole, but another no for raid0.
You get no speed advantage from raid0 over ethernet, at least on most NAS.
If you are suspicious of power supply of the nas to hdd's don't risk it.
Backup sistem SHOULD be the most important part of your network, and saving a few bucks there is a mistake. Also i reccomend using WD RED hdd.

 

[Frozwire]

Might be possibly caused by a poorly designed ventilation for the drives on that NAS box that makes the drives cooked every year.

 

[MMoore]

Been using Buffalo Linkstations Diskless put my own drives in there to get the full warranty. WD Black or RED on a RAID1 seem to be just fine. Looking at 85.00 for the NAS and 79.00 each drive for a 5 year deal. The only negative I have seen is the fans in the linkstations go bad, but I have yet to experience this. The Terastations are more business oriented.

 

[alex32165]

Its Synology DiskStation. AND I APOLOGIZE!!!! the RAID 0 was a typo. It is in fact, RAID 1. And i believe they were using seagate NAS drives but im not exactly sure. I just took this position over not that long ago and they gave me the assignment to find more durable drives

 

[Martyn]

I've got a few Synologies out there now all with WDs except one and the one with a pair of raid 1 Seagates had errors starting to appear after 2 years. All the others rock solid.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Its Synology DiskStation. AND I APOLOGIZE!!!! the RAID 0 was a typo. It is in fact, RAID 1. And i believe they were using seagate NAS drives but im not exactly sure. I just took this position over not that long ago and they gave me the assignment to find more durable drives

What model?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Its Synology DiskStation. AND I APOLOGIZE!!!! the RAID 0 was a typo. It is in fact, RAID 1. And i believe they were using seagate NAS drives but im not exactly sure. I just took this position over not that long ago and they gave me the assignment to find more durable drives

Most of the NAS's we've done are Synologys....usually do the WD Blacks, WD RE series (both of those are enterprise grade), and lately doing the WD Reds.

Couple of years ago, Seagate drives were having wicked high failure rates. Probably what you're seeing due to that. Seagate Pipeline drives?

 

[alex32165]

Most of the NAS's we've done are Synologys....usually do the WD Blacks, WD RE series (both of those are enterprise grade), and lately doing the WD Reds.

Couple of years ago, Seagate drives were having wicked high failure rates. Probably what you're seeing due to that. Seagate Pipeline drives?

Yes sir, you hit the nail on the head with the Seagate pipeline drives. We just ordered 2 WD red's to replace the Seagates. I've never had any trouble with WD so i'm hoping this does the trick