NAS

Links

• Backblaze Hard drive stats

Criteria

• Silent
• Power consumption
  • Wake-on-LAN
  • Timer & scheduler
• Reliability
  • Not only reliability of harddrives, but also reliability of the main unit!
  • If the main unit is broken, make sure that data can still be retrieved by installing the harddrives in another unit.
  • Notification in case of defect (not a mere diode, but mail).
• Transert speed
  • For both big and small files
  • RAID 5, SMB, files > 1MB: 1,2MB/s (Synology DS508)
  • RAID 5, SMB, big files: 31,4MB/s (Synology DS508)
  • RAID 5, SMB, files > 1MB: 5,5MB/s (N5200BR)
  • RAID 5, SMB, big files: 30,9MB/s (N5200BR)

Review

• Comparatif : 10 Nas 2 et 3 disques (11 juin 2008)

History

• Lacie Cloudbox

• Seagate Barracuda 3000GB ST3000DM001
• Crash in September 2018 (bought ~ June 2015, lifetime 3 yr).

• Synology 418Play

• 4 x Seagate IronWolf 4 TB
• Hard drive 3.5" 4 To 5900 RPM 64 Mo Serial ATA 6 Gb/s for NAS (bulk)
• Disk 3 crash (bad sectors) in May 2023 (bought September 2018, lifetime 4 yr 8 months).
• Replaced with Western Digital Red Plus 8TB, because WDC has good annual failure rate stats on Backblaze reports.