If you are going to buy two 12Tbs and price goes up 25%, it is likely going to cost you £215 more by Sept. Currently a Seagate Ironwolf 12Tb nas drive is £430 on Amazon. These will get passed to customers, and business customers will also get allocation priorty.Ĭlick to expand.A 25% rise in drives may not be significant to you, but it is to many. My employer is forward purchasing to mitigate, but we are still forecasting price increases of around 25% over next 2 quarters. Reason is that cv19 is going to reduce ssd, and to a lesser extent hdd supplies, and increase prices significantly as we go through the year. That is the adviceĪs a cautionary note to anyone looking at buying storage in next few months, do it NOW! Use fastest biggest drives in box with newest fastest NAS box, configured as one large pool. I’ve known single arrays with 1000 discs to take 8 hours to rebuild after a disc failure.Īs has been mentioned RAID is not best suited to home use. It takes full fat Powerful enterprise grade NAS to reconfigure or rebuild raid Groups after a crash, and that is often with many Tb cache and far more cpu power than home kit. What they don’t tell you is that this can take as long, sometimes longer than reinitialising or configuring the whole array from scratch. You can add disc dynamically (sort of) but the raid controller still then needs to Distribute existing data across added storage. Add fastest drives to the fastest controllers, then use old stuff for back up. What's your priority - storage capacity or read access and times? Do a comparative with the rpm numbers for new and old disc sets, as this can drive acces times for Reads and throughputs for disc Writes. BUT if you want grunt, your repurposed discs' spindle speeds may be the limiting factor that you simply are carrying across. Beware if you are adding in new RAID groups, beacause the whole thing will reconfigure (again), wheras if its not RAID, you just add to the storage pool. Once migrated, you can retire discs from old box for repurposing. Domestic strength NAS controllers really dont have that much grunt, so I advice using NAS as one big filer. If you are using raid, new box will take longer to configure RAID groups. 1Gbit end to end will soon populate new NAS. ![]() ![]() Quickest way to migrate data to new box, is to first ensure that you have fastest Gb Ethernet from end to end and including your switch/router channe for through put.
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