I'll be interested to hear what you go with.I ordered 5 more. Going to pick up after the snow clears. Now to find a good deal on a NAS.
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I'll be interested to hear what you go with.I ordered 5 more. Going to pick up after the snow clears. Now to find a good deal on a NAS.
Give it a try, even if just to do some testing which you should perform before shucking anyway. Crystal Disk Mark should pull in 180MB/sec or better over usb 3.0, but gigabit network is actually going to limit you anyway. If you have a lot of data to dump into it initially, you'd be better off connecting it directly as you'd be hard pressed to break 120MB/sec over gigabit.Mine came in! Product of Thailand so we're off to a promising start.
I may not even shuck it. My ASUS RT-AC68U (a converted T-Mobile unit) has a set of USB 3.0 ports on it. I am thinking about just attaching it there for some sweet network storage.
Try it and go from there. My very old corsair HX520 and Lian-Li backplanes had no issue.Just confirming what others have said earlier - my Thailand 256mb cache one did turn out to be a white label. I checked it out with CrystalDiskInfo and it is a WD80EMAZ, which I expect is a white label. Firmware is 83.H0A83 which I read is the exact same firmware as many WD Red 8gb drives. I also used GSmartControl ( which has a nice GUI and is easier to use on windows compared to smartctl) to check for TLER by the presence of "SCT Error Recovery Control - Read 70 Write 70 " which is apparently the standard 7 second duration for TLER! I am guessing that between this being active even as the disk is in the enclosure and the firmware is as reported, that this white label drive is for all intents and purposes a Red?
I've not yet popped it out of the enclosure yet, but I figure unless there's a reason NOT to do so at this point it looks like its worth keeping, even though it was a NEBB model; after all, I hear even NESNs are just as likely to be white label these days.
Oh now the only question I have about the 3.3v pin issue, specifically related to my proposed use. I'm planning to use it in a a SATA backplane - its an older Corsair Sata III 6.0gbps backplane (upgraded from the default) in the Corsair 800D - at least to start. What exact pieces of the setup have to be compatible for this to work? For instance, I read that lots of people are having no problem with their backplanes and whatnot so long as they're using a reasonably recently made PSU that is compliant with the new feature. I expect I will be picking up a newer PSU, so this shouldn't be a problem. Does the backplane itself (output/connection to the drive) and/or SATA power input on the backplane have to be electrically different to be compliant here as well? If nothing else I'll do the 'tape mod" I figure, but I just want to gauge my chance of it working without modification.
Technically void, but most people pop them back in the enclosure and send them in. Lets be honest removing them from the enclosure isn't going to cause a drive to fail unless you removed it with a hammer. So there really isn't a good way for them to tell you ever removed it.So I'm assuming once the drives are removed from the enclosures they have no warranty? Has anyone checked?
Common sense would say no, but then again a lot of Seagate drives I've pulled from externals had a full valid warranty on the bare drive itself.
Same seems they are out of efax drives.I ordered 2 NESN @ $150 a couple weeks back and both came EFAX (Red, 256MB cache)
I ordered 2 more NESN a couple days ago @ $140 and both came EMAZ (White, 256MB cache)
It will slow down as you fill it up. The fastest speeds are when it's fresh. You can try running some benchmarks on it now to see if it's another limitation, such as the internal drive's read speed. It's also possible that the usb controller isn't up to snuff, as you should be getting double that fresh. Try running crystal disk mark, I have one still unshucked that's 97% full and I get 200MB still. Give it a try and report back.Unlike most of you, I'm using the drive un-shucked. Thailand version, paid $150 for it on BF.
I'm using FreeFileSync to mirror an internal drive in a Windows 10 workstation to the easystore attached to a blue USB 3.0 rear port. Getting 80 - 90 MB/sec write speed. Is this on the slow side? Any way to speed it up?
The drive was about 5/8 full when I got these speeds. A NAS was also mirrored to the easystore.
Thanks!
One thing that is still useful about crystal vs hd tune, is that you can perform a write test. It still would answer the question if his usb controller was up to snuff, when compared to my result.Crystaldiskmark is meant for Solid state drives that write linear.
This is from one of EZZX models, though they perform about the same as these here.
Also write speeds from a slower drive will be bottlenecked by that drive, it's file sizes, and fragmentation.
Swap drives ports and see if another drive throws errors on that port. U running ecc ram?I'm not, I'm using the two integrated controllers on the asrock c2750.
It will slow down as you fill it up. The fastest speeds are when it's fresh. You can try running some benchmarks on it now to see if it's another limitation, such as the internal drive's read speed. It's also possible that the usb controller isn't up to snuff, as you should be getting double that fresh. Try running crystal disk mark, I have one still unshucked that's 97% full and I get 200MB still. Give it a try and report back.
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Hmm yeah that's hurting a bit. Do you have another computer to try it on, or another set of ports to try? I found on my pc two of my usb 3.0 ports were provided by an add on chip, and their speed was pretty bad. My server has the newest system, and that's what it's connected to and the usb 3.0 ports are very fast.Here's the result -
https://www.amazon.com/Norco-Mini-I...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=60J2KFCSQDQ1AWD8HDDZI'll be interested to hear what you go with.
You need the case for warranty. But since these are essentially Hitachi drives, you'll probably never have to worry about reliability.
My 32x Ultrastar He8s have been running 24/7 for quite a few months now without issues.
Keeping in mind that my server isn't being hit all that hard, I find that my HD's are replaced with larger drives before they die. And the few drives that have died were almost always over 7 years old, though I've had one or 2 die under warranty. Whether it was in year 1-2 or year 3, I can't remember. There's a reason why Blackblaze has typically said the extra warranty is not worth the extra money you pay.So if the drive is just used for say 10 hours per week what kind of lifespan would you all think it would have (obviously YMMV)?
I have some older ones from 4TB drives if you want?Does anyone want to sell a few of their shucked enclosures for a good price? I could sure use them.
Thanks, That sounds good, give me a price shipped to Perry, GAI have some older ones from 4TB drives if you want?
Careful, some WD enclosures whitelist the drives they will work with, and won't even work with other WD drives of the same capacity. They also tend to automatically encrypt the drive's contents, making the drive unreadable if you ever take it out of the enclosure.Thanks, That sounds good, give me a price shipped to Perry, GA
They also tend to automatically encrypt the drive's contents, making the drive unreadable if you ever take it out of the enclosure.
Careful, some WD enclosures whitelist the drives they will work with, and won't even work with other WD drives of the same capacity. They also tend to automatically encrypt the drive's contents, making the drive unreadable if you ever take it out of the enclosure.
I didn't know that. Has anyone tried these enclosures with other drives?
I didn't know that. Has anyone tried these enclosures with other drives?
Is there a way to identify the cache size without shucking? I ran CrystalDisk Info and I have a NESN WD80EMAZ.