On 9/20/19 8:12 AM, Grant Shipley wrote: > Depends on what you are using your NAS for. I mainly use mine for media > and document storage so I use the green drives.
Yeah. The machine functions as a NAS, but also hosts virtual machines. It's a very lightly used machine so I doubt there will be many performance issues with slower drives. For the last 6 or 7 years it's been running Green drives and doing alright, although I'm pretty sure those were 7200 rpm. The drive that just failed is a seagate and it's only about 4 years old. I ordered a couple of Red drives so we'll see how the performance is. They will be used in a RAID 1 configuration, so read performance should be not too bad, and write performance will probably be acceptable. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
