On Wed, 29 May 2013 00:21:48 +0100 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
On 28/05/13 12:16, Chris Walker wrote:
So 2 questions. Does anybody have any recommendations for discs or are the Western Digital discs ok? And second, should I replace both or is one ok for the time being?
Depends on the hours on the drives. I find non NAS grade HDD's in an always on setup tend to bail (on average) after 3 years.
The enclosure and drives were bought in November 2009. I don't always have it on and tend to start it up each morning. I'm not sure if running 24x7 is better or worse than running 'as needed' though.
If the data is/was important to you and you don't already have a good backup I'd take one now.
I had a backup as I recently pulled everything off the NAS but I've now used that space for something else! I think I know where I can find another drive to handle *that* data though thus releasing a 1TB drive to use as backup.