Today I started rebuilding my NAS by swapping out the WD Green drives with WD Gold enterprise class drives which I thought would be a great upgrade for reliability and peace of mind etc.
The moment I powered it on it started making a terribly annoying shrieking sound that I can hear from the basement. All the drives appear healthy and they seem to be making the same noise each but I'm not sure if this is normal. Can Sup Forums confirm? Are these drives supposed to be so loud?
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I mean, noise isn't a concern in a full datacenter environment, but these may yet have AAM available, check the firmware to make sure
get an ssd grandpa
>ssd for a NAS
are you gay?
>SSD for NAS
I don't think you know or understand what a NAS is, do you?
They're in mirror/raid-5 right?
So who cares.
Stop being poor
RAID10, 4*4tb WD Gold drives
Is this the NAS thread? What do people think of DROBO/BeyondRAID?
PSU too weak
>Are these drives supposed to be so loud?
Yes, because they're designed for servers in a datacentre or small server room that is isolated away from people.
You can probably make them quieter by changing settings in hdparm, but it might not be quite as effective on the golds.
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If you can, return them and get WD Red Pro.
If not, try hdparm and also try moving the server somewhere away from you.
>he fell for the datacenter quality meme
Everything related to datacenters is loud as hell, user. You should've gone for the consumer variants instead, noise levels are kept as low as possible with those things.
What the fug is BeyondRAID? Anyways, Drobo sounds like it's all about gimmicks. I'd get a Synology.
>any consumer/'prosumer'/small business nas 'appliance'
Shit.
Build your own fileserver.
See pic related and also get a HP P420 smartarray for $120 and spend the remaining $60 on cables.
8x 6TB for $2200 - with full ~110MB/s network throughput.
fuggg
why smartarray?
>only 110MB/s
you're doing it wrong if you're only getting 110MB/s
that's as much as you're realistically going to get out of gigabit ethernet.
No shit sherlock. If you're spending $2200 on a file server then you were retarded for not getting 10GbE
really now, $2200 including the cost of the drives is nothing extravagant for babby's first NAS. You don't need 10gbe for serving porn to your battlestation, user.
ever heard of backups
Cheap, works well, no crazy compatibility issues like PERC.
Branded adapters always end up costing more - nothing wrong with Adaptec, LSI, 3ware, etc though.
PCPartPicker doesn't have the CS380 for some reason, if it did - the build would be mATX and for an extra $200 have decent 10gbe aswell.
At least it's not realtek NIC in the meantime and is smaller for the nasfags.
I run fullsize ATX and 4GBE (bonded, sue me.)
Why didn't you just buy WD Reds? This is what they are designed for. You probably paid extra money for a drive that was supposed to exist on enterprise servers that are locked away in a separate room.
That's not an argument, and a NAS needs storage space, not speed.
That's' exactly what happened, not just probably...
There are big ssds.
HDDs are just inferior technology in every way.
I don't have Gold, but I've replaced Green with Red in a NAS. Red is the one designed for NAS use -- 24/7 uptime with semi-frequent access. The Reds are louder than the Greens, but it's the head movement chatter that's louder, and it's nothing like as loud as on a Black.
I'd expect an "enterprise" model to be louder since they're designed to be put in data centers where noise levels don't matter. But no healthy HDD screeches. If it's screeching from spinup to spindown (and you can verify it's a HDD and not a bad fan), it's defective.
Also if you have more than one of them, you can plug one or more into a PSU and hear them individually.
It's actually the extra noise from an extra set of bearings.
Datacenter drives have two sets bearings supporting the spindle while consumer drives have one. It's supposed to improve reliability and the reason why they have a MTBF that's double that of normal hard drives. The tradeoff is extra noise.
>the build would be mATX and for an extra $200 have decent 10gbe aswell.
You can get Intel X520s for $50 easily. Mellanox cards are even less.
except for price/gb
exactly. SSD for fast storage, which you want for things like OSes. HDD for cheap large storage where speed doesn't really matter, which you want for things like media and backups -- i.e. what most people put on a NAS.
You can't even saturate a HDD's linear read speed over gigabit ethernet.