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Post by dlapine on Oct 5, 2008 3:43:11 GMT 7
Thought you might be interested. As I hadn't seen any other posts using 1.5 TB drives, I thought it would be nice let people know that these do work. I'm running a stock N5200
Just bought 3 Seagate 1.5TB drives to upgrade my N5200 from the current 5 x Seagate 320's.
Updated the box to 2.0.12 firmware.
Swapped the old drives out. Put the 3 new drives in. The box found them without issue
Model: ST31500341AS Firmware: SD17
With 3 drives, the unit reports a total capacity of 4,292,398 MB
Building a raid 5 with them now.
Using 95% of the drive, the N5200 shows my raid with a total capacity of 2790.7 GB. W00t!
I'll post when the raid is finished building.
The only question I have is does anyone suspects that the OS would have a problem if I add a fourth drive, and break the 4TB size? I shouldn't think so.
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Post by dlapine on Oct 9, 2008 7:12:39 GMT 7
Ok, the 3 drive raid5 built in about 12 hrs on stock n5200. No issues.
After build (5% reserved, 1024KB stripe size), the raid has 2567.2 GB available.
Nice.
Using the info module, I see that these drives have a temp of 29C at idle and don't get all that much warmer under use.
This should hold my data needs for a while
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Post by interested on Oct 16, 2008 1:52:19 GMT 7
dlapine,
any further comments now that you have been running the drives for a few days? How heavily have you been running them? what have you been using the thecus for? etc etc?
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Post by vanhelm on Oct 22, 2008 17:44:53 GMT 7
Hello dlapine,
i am interrested too, if there problems occured after some days more? Because i also think about this drives.
best regards
vanhelm
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Post by dlapine on Oct 23, 2008 2:10:39 GMT 7
Have had no issues with the new drives.
I leave the box off most days.
Main purpose is archive storage. I've moved about 1.1 TB back onto the back after the raid was built, but it was a simple CIFS copy from one machine to the thecus.
I have done more copies back to the raid from other machines, but I haven't tried to view media (audio or video) directly from the raid.
After reading about the potential issues with media streaming on these drives I need to boot it up and run some movies off the raid. I'd like to see if I can trigger the issue or not. (Hopefully, not)
I will post more later.
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Post by tankslappa on Oct 23, 2008 9:04:55 GMT 7
Have had no issues with the new drives. I leave the box off most days. Main purpose is archive storage. I've moved about 1.1 TB back onto the back after the raid was built, but it was a simple CIFS copy from one machine to the thecus. I have done more copies back to the raid from other machines, but I haven't tried to view media (audio or video) directly from the raid. After reading about the potential issues with media streaming on these drives I need to boot it up and run some movies off the raid. I'd like to see if I can trigger the issue or not. (Hopefully, not) I will post more later. You do realise than the power on/off cycle is the most stressful for the drives and electronics don't you? Not only the mechanical stress of having to spin the drives up from stationary, but the electrical current is higher on a stationary load. Also the circuitry rapidly coming up to running temperature from cold can cause mechanical stress on the joints.
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Post by interested on Oct 25, 2008 12:39:54 GMT 7
After reading about the potential issues with media streaming on these drives I need to boot it up and run some movies off the raid. I'd like to see if I can trigger the issue or not. (Hopefully, not) I will post more later. What potential issues with media streaming from these drives? please inform the rest of us here. Thanks
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Post by daryletilroe on Nov 1, 2008 20:49:28 GMT 7
Just thought I'd mention that I have had two N5200's with 1.5TB ST31500341AS in them. They have been running for the last two weeks without a hitch. I'd also note that I am using RAID6. IMHO given the time to rebuild a two drive failure is too risky.
I have been loading them pretty good with 50 GB being written in one shot every night to one; and the other running Azureus and Squeezecenter and streaming flacs and videos. I have not yet tried streaming an HD file yet but will be soon. No problems so far except I think I really need to upgrade the RAM in the second one with the latter two memory hogs (Azureus and Squeezecenter that is).
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Post by dlapine on Nov 24, 2008 4:06:01 GMT 7
There was information on slashdot a few weeks back about issues with media streaming and these drives.
So far, I've had no issues with the 3 drive raid five setup. all of my drives are running SD17.
watched a dvd image off the thecus 2 weeks ago with no issues, so media streaming hasn't been an issue either.
So far, so good.
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Post by rachelfaith on Feb 6, 2009 11:13:28 GMT 7
I leave my Two 5200's running 24x7 since October. Not ever offline or shut down for any reason. Always copying or moving data every day in HD video and Music editing on Mac.
I'd love to upgrade to 1.5 or even higher... from my 5x1TBs but I have NO WAY to get the data from X to Y to Z. I'd have to buy a 3rd 5200 and do them one at a time and then sell the used drives.
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