Post by enthusiast on Aug 31, 2013 21:07:24 GMT 7
I have had my N5200PRO NAS approximately 5 years. It has been doing a good job but the initial 1TB disks started to get failed sectors. The official HDD compatibility list from Thecus is so old so none of these disks are available for purchase.
I recently tested to swap one HDD to a Seagate ST2000NC000 2TB. Worked perfectly so I swapped all five HDD to this 2TB disk. I then expanded my existing RAID6 and got 5.4TB available which corresponds to a total usage of 9.5TB. Works perfectly and the NAS seems slightly quicker with these new HDD. Furthermore, the HDD temperature dropped from around 42 degrees Celsius to 35-37 degrees. With this change I hope I can run my NAS another 4 years.
The old HDD were consumer disks but the new ones are server HDD so they should be more reliable than consumer HDD. I have the PRO model (swapped the memory module from 512MByte to 1024MByte but no other modifications). I run the firmware 2.00.18.8 (latest version that can be downloaded from Thecus website). The HDD I run have firmware CE02 (came with that). No dip switches or any configuration. Just to plug them in while the NAS was running. I needed to wait approximately 24 hours between swapping each disk to enable rebuild of the RAID between each swap. Interestingly when swapping the last disk the final rebuild took 3 days (I think it restarted one or two times but eventually got there). All disks shows no damaged sectors. Link to product information: www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/hdd/enterprise-value-hdd/?sku=ST2000NC000.
I recently tested to swap one HDD to a Seagate ST2000NC000 2TB. Worked perfectly so I swapped all five HDD to this 2TB disk. I then expanded my existing RAID6 and got 5.4TB available which corresponds to a total usage of 9.5TB. Works perfectly and the NAS seems slightly quicker with these new HDD. Furthermore, the HDD temperature dropped from around 42 degrees Celsius to 35-37 degrees. With this change I hope I can run my NAS another 4 years.
The old HDD were consumer disks but the new ones are server HDD so they should be more reliable than consumer HDD. I have the PRO model (swapped the memory module from 512MByte to 1024MByte but no other modifications). I run the firmware 2.00.18.8 (latest version that can be downloaded from Thecus website). The HDD I run have firmware CE02 (came with that). No dip switches or any configuration. Just to plug them in while the NAS was running. I needed to wait approximately 24 hours between swapping each disk to enable rebuild of the RAID between each swap. Interestingly when swapping the last disk the final rebuild took 3 days (I think it restarted one or two times but eventually got there). All disks shows no damaged sectors. Link to product information: www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/hdd/enterprise-value-hdd/?sku=ST2000NC000.