It's fine if it works for you. I use Windows built-in Robocopy if I have any serious amount of files to transfer.
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You're not even showing the full SMART output. Resize the window to show all attributes and repost.
But if truly 131088 reallocated sectors, the disk is likely dying and if you try to read data off it I wouldn't doubt if you'd start to get errors.
That is like a ten year old hard drive. If there's anything you need off there then dd the disk to an image file or if it's really important look for a data recovery service.
Buy from a reputable reseller. Serverpartdeals has gained respect in this community.
Refurbished = used = recertified. They don't do anything to them except maybe scan for bad sectors and sometimes reset the SMART attributes. But Serverpartdeals provides a 2 year warranty for most of their drives as far as I'm aware. Warranty is through them though not direct from the drive manufacturer.
Sorry, I just read "disk read errors" from previous poster and see a lot of people freak out over the seek error rate or disk read error attributes.
Read error rates are meaningless on Seagate drives. It's tallying internal data and not indicative of drive health.
Jonsbo N3 case - 8 hard drives
If you're OK with a meager CPU and ordering from Aliexpress, you can grab this mini ITX board with a Celeron N5105, has six SATA ports, and two M.2 NVMe ports, 4x 2.5Gbps Intel NIC (amazing actually), support for 2x DDR4 So-DIMM (laptop) RAM: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805947799076.html
Or just search NAS motherboard N5105, there's plenty of sellers.
Specs say 16GB max RAM (mainly Intel CPU published limit) but it apparently works fine with 32GB.
You can use one of the M.2 slots to add an M.2 to SATA port adapter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T3RMFFT
Or buy the M.2 SATA adapter from Aliexpress if you get the mobo, they're cheaper and basically the same thing.
And because it includes dual M.2 slots, four 2.5Gbps ethernet ports, and 6 onboard SATA it leaves the PCIe slot free for further expansion if desired. I don't know why more mainstream motherboard manufacturers don't do this, but with a socketed CPU.
I'm doing a review of this kind of setup once my motherboard arrives.
Minimally a long SMART test, which is some basic diagnostics and a full disk surface read test.
But I also like to do a full disk write as well. One full read, one full write should be enough imho.
If you're in Windows download the manufacturer drive app to do a full SMART test.
- Seagate Seatools: https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
- WD Dashboard: https://support-en.wd.com/app/products/downloads/softwaredownloads
- Toshiba Storage Diagnostic Tool: https://www.canvio.jp/en/support/download/hdd/ot_sdt/en.htm
Usually the SMART long test in each of these utilities works with other brands too. I know I've used Seatools SMART test on all three drive brands without a problem.
For write test you can either do a full format, or use DISKPART utility with the CLEAN ALL command. Note that CLEAN ALL will not show any status update, it will just run in the background. You will only know by monitoring the disk activity from the task manager. CLEAN ALL will wipe the entire disk surface. A full format will only wipe within the filesystem partition container. Not a big deal, just that CLEAN ALL is full disk, where as full format is partition only.
There are third party paid utilities like Hard Disk Sentinel that you can configure for wiping the disk with any pattern you want as many times as you want. Also will do a full surface read if desired.
These 16GB are $66 each. Not cheap but not horrible either. I bought those for my two DS1819+ a few years back: https://www.newegg.com/sk-hynix-16gb-260-pin-ddr4-so-dimm/p/1X5-0040-001D4?Item=9SIAHZUD035785
NAS is wide open full of options. You can get one off the shelf like a Synology or just build a PC and use that as your NAS with a NAS OS like OpenMediaVault, UnRAID, TrueNAS...
SnapRAID is still plenty active. Just check their GitHub. Last update was 12.2 August 2022.
If you're using Windows and Drivepool your only options are folder duplication in Drivepool and/or SnapRAID.
Perhaps look at setting up a separate Linux based NAS.
Never had to restore data thankfully.
You should do a trial restore periodically, even if just a small sample size, otherwise how do you know that it's actually working?
4gb of memory in the stock device is a bit low, and from what I can tell, upgrading the memory will cost a pretty penny since it's not a standard size ram stick AND it only accepts certain speeds.
It just uses regular laptop So-DIMM's. They are cheap and abundant.
But as far as CPU, yeah that's the weak point with Synology NAS's now. I don't know why they bothered with the AMD chip over an Intel with integrated GPU. Even a weak Intel CPU with Quick Sync support could easily transcode 4x 1080p to 480p streams.
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