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Mixing Seagate hard drives
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:41 pm
by hyvokar
Hi!
Some time ago I bought QNAP TS-853A-4G and housed it with 4x 6TB seagate drives, ST6000VN0041. I configured them in raid 5.
Now I need to increase the storage but the ST6000VN0041 line has been discontinued and has been replaced with with ST6000VN0033 .
Can I add ST6000VN0033 drives to existing array?
Re: Mixing Seagate hard drives
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:01 pm
by storageman
hyvokar wrote:Hi!
Some time ago I bought QNAP TS-853A-4G and housed it with 4x 6TB seagate drives, ST6000VN0041. I configured them in raid 5.
Now I need to increase the storage but the ST6000VN0041 line has been discontinued and has been replaced with with ST6000VN0033 .
Can I add ST6000VN0033 drives to existing array?
Check the compat list, quicker than asking here.
Re: Mixing Seagate hard drives
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:30 pm
by hyvokar
Hi,
yes, they both are on a compatibility list, but my question was can I mix different type of disks in the same array.
Re: Mixing Seagate hard drives
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:44 pm
by P3R
Yes, there are no problems with mixing compatible disks (even from different manufacturers) in a RAID. The only disadvantage being if performance is vastly different between the disks, the RAID will be slowed down by the slowest member disk.
I would recommend a migration to RAID 6 sometime around 5 or 6 disks.
Re: Mixing Seagate hard drives
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:53 pm
by hyvokar
Thank you for your reply, I'll go ahead and order more disks
Re: Mixing Seagate hard drives
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 3:17 pm
by spikemixture
I would think of going with the 8TB.
Yes you will loose 2tb on each now but think ahead.
Replace each broken 6 with an 8 and before 2 long u have 6x8
It probably comes down to a budget thing but think about it.....