10TB Barracuda Pro Vs Ironwolf Pro
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:37 am
I bought 4 Seagate Expansions to shuck for the 10TB drives and two of them are showing in Crystal Disk as Ironwolf Pro and two as Barracuda Pro. These are currently running in RAID10 in my TS-451+ as:
Bay 1: Ironwolf Pro
Bay 2: Ironwolf Pro
Bay 3: Barracuda Pro
Bay 4: Barracuda Pro
I went and got another four of these drives for my TR-004 as a backup and they are each Ironwolf Pro units. They are currently not installed and have just been shucked.
My question to you is: Should I sequentially replace the Barracuda Pro units in my TS-451+ and rebuild the RAID10 array each time - one drive at a time and then move them into the TR-004 or should I just leave them in the TS-451+ and put the four new Ironwolf Pro's in the TR-004. My thinking is that it would be better to have four perfectly matched drives in the two RAID 1 sets of the RAID 10 of the TS-451+ as it is running the OS. Both drives have very similar specs and expected life spans. My temps are running around 48 degrees at the most and they have been in this enclosure for the last month, so drive age isn't really an issue.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Bay 1: Ironwolf Pro
Bay 2: Ironwolf Pro
Bay 3: Barracuda Pro
Bay 4: Barracuda Pro
I went and got another four of these drives for my TR-004 as a backup and they are each Ironwolf Pro units. They are currently not installed and have just been shucked.
My question to you is: Should I sequentially replace the Barracuda Pro units in my TS-451+ and rebuild the RAID10 array each time - one drive at a time and then move them into the TR-004 or should I just leave them in the TS-451+ and put the four new Ironwolf Pro's in the TR-004. My thinking is that it would be better to have four perfectly matched drives in the two RAID 1 sets of the RAID 10 of the TS-451+ as it is running the OS. Both drives have very similar specs and expected life spans. My temps are running around 48 degrees at the most and they have been in this enclosure for the last month, so drive age isn't really an issue.
Any advice would be appreciated.