I wish to replace a Mediasonic 2-bay hard drive enclosure that contains two WD red drives, one of 6TB (about 4 years old and the other of 8TB (about three years old), set up in a stripe set with the RAID software built into the Mediasonic. For some reason that I've never been able to figure out my computer sees the Mediasonic as 10TB. According to the Mediasonic instructions if you make a stripe set of unequal drives you will get double size of the smaller one, so I should get 12TB, not 10TB. Oh well, there is still 3TB free space, and I'm going to replace them anyway, so it's not worth my effort to do anything about it.
The Mediasonic stripe set is backed up to a Synology NAS on the other side of the room. The Synology contains two 8TB WD red drives (both about three years old), also in a stripe set, which my computer sees as 16TB. According to my memory the warranty on the drives was five years, but when I search on WD red drives now they seem to be rated at three years. My plan is to replace the Mediasonic first, and eventually the drives in the Synology. I would like additional storage in the Mediasonic replacement, say 20TB, which I want to be solid state. For the Synology I will just replace the drives with two 10TB drives and keep the enclosure. The Mediasonic enclosure has to go away, because it can take only 3.5" drives. Plus, it is SATA3, which is currently connected to my computer by USB3.0 (5Gbs). When I originally set it up that was about the fastest my old computer could do, but my current computer has Thunderbolt 3 ports, and I'd like to take advantage of them. So basically, I'm shopping for 20TB worth of solid state drives, and a Thunderbolt 3 capable enclosure for them. I started looking online, but web site designers leave out half the information that I need, and the search options are useless. Plus, I want solid state drives for their speed, but I don't understand what kind I need. I need some education. So does anyone here have any experience with this stuff? I need suggestions! _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
