My buddy wants to take some 8tb Seagate Compute drives of my hand to upgrade his drobo storage, drobo says those are not compatible or recommended. There is also a video on youtube of a guy sticking a 5TB SMR drive in his drobo and it failing very quickly (though he had all kinds of different drives there size wise and storage amount, the 5tbs also have high failure rate). My buddies usage would be mostly storage with not much access and streaming some media off of it to 1-2 devices max.
What do you guys think yay or nay?
I personally had 4 Seagate 8tb archive drives in a raid5 array for 2 years doing nightly backups and they are chugging along just fine.
What do you guys think yay or nay?
I personally had 4 Seagate 8tb archive drives in a raid5 array for 2 years doing nightly backups and they are chugging along just fine.