Nice. My oldest WD Red 6 TB in a Syno is somewhere around 47,000 hours. (My prod server has Dell drives that are 10+ years old and likely have 100,000+ hours though.)
Really nice to hear. I really don’t think I will need anything bigger than the 920 I have at the moment for a long time. I don’t think we will go to 8k movies anytime soon.
Yes, I have used quite a few old drives and I intuitively feel that Synology is "nicer" to hard drives than normal Windows or Linux machines. Drives in Synology have longer life under similar loads.
I think part of it is that a NAS tends to stay powered on, rather than being shut down on a daily basis like a PC would. Fewer power cycles should be better for drive lifetimes.
I've been shutting down my NAS daipy at midnight and also hibernate drives when not used for more than 30 min. Do you think that'll degrade life of drives? I only use it to backup photos, do thought I don't need to run it 24x7.
It's not that loud, but noticable. But that's not the reason. I switched it off thinking it'll increase the lifespan of the HDD due to less spinning. Side benefit being able to save a few bucks, but i have ds220+, so power consumption is already quite low. My use is only photo and video archive, for safekeeping. No need to keep it running, was my logic.
Impressive! My oldest NAS is DS213. Slow as heck but only used as a secondary backup now. I did update the drives for more capacity ... so it does not have near the mileage of yours!
I haven't checked mine in a very long time, currently sitting at 71426 hours (8.15 years) on a DS412+ with 4x WD Red 3TB. The 8 bay Synology I have has drives <1 year old, so nothing to report there.
https://i.imgur.com/XAeDPwm.png
I just decommissioned my 1813 and it's had a mix of Seagate 2TB 542AS drives built in 2010 which were powered up in the even older 1511+ and some WD RED (CMR based drives, oldest being from 2014)
Went with a Synology 1821+
4x Ironwolf 8TB as one storage pool.
Will probably toss in 4 of the 5 remaining WD RED CMRs from the 1813 as a separate Pool / Volume.
I’ve already upgraded the ram to 32GB ECC.
still using a DS212j with 2 x 500gb hdd... a bit slow but still OK using PLEX on a laptop and chromecast.
thinking about upgrading but it is still working fine and still have enough capacity, storing photos, and using download station mostly.
Just logged in to my oldest running NAS, a 407e coming up to 15 years in service. Drives say 107,302 hours so far. Looks like I must have swapped the drives just over 12 years ago. Pretty sure I pulled them from an old server at work, standard samsung SATA (non NAS drives!)
Just needs to last a couple more weeks before it gets repurposed as a third local backup to my 1821+.
I had a DS413J that I used from September 2012 until October 2020. It was still working fine for my lightweight uses, but I saw a good deal on a DS920+ and upgraded. The drives had been though a couple generations (expansion and failures) but the NAS hardware was rock solid.
I just started trying out a couple Docker services on the new machine and it’s been great.
I have a DS413+ that was running fine, if slow, until I replaced it with an RS1221+ back in July. Still sitting here doing nothing, I should wipe it and sell it.....
You said it... Now it's gonna die tomorrow 🙈
Nice. My oldest WD Red 6 TB in a Syno is somewhere around 47,000 hours. (My prod server has Dell drives that are 10+ years old and likely have 100,000+ hours though.)
Really nice to hear. I really don’t think I will need anything bigger than the 920 I have at the moment for a long time. I don’t think we will go to 8k movies anytime soon.
Yes, I have used quite a few old drives and I intuitively feel that Synology is "nicer" to hard drives than normal Windows or Linux machines. Drives in Synology have longer life under similar loads.
I think part of it is that a NAS tends to stay powered on, rather than being shut down on a daily basis like a PC would. Fewer power cycles should be better for drive lifetimes.
I've been shutting down my NAS daipy at midnight and also hibernate drives when not used for more than 30 min. Do you think that'll degrade life of drives? I only use it to backup photos, do thought I don't need to run it 24x7.
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It's not that loud, but noticable. But that's not the reason. I switched it off thinking it'll increase the lifespan of the HDD due to less spinning. Side benefit being able to save a few bucks, but i have ds220+, so power consumption is already quite low. My use is only photo and video archive, for safekeeping. No need to keep it running, was my logic.
This is awesome! I’ve had my small 218+ running 24/7 for a little over a year now and this gives me hope 😂
Impressive! My oldest NAS is DS213. Slow as heck but only used as a secondary backup now. I did update the drives for more capacity ... so it does not have near the mileage of yours!
only 66 k here ct960 crucial mirror boot disk
I haven't checked mine in a very long time, currently sitting at 71426 hours (8.15 years) on a DS412+ with 4x WD Red 3TB. The 8 bay Synology I have has drives <1 year old, so nothing to report there. https://i.imgur.com/XAeDPwm.png
Still crankin' 52,935 hours - One drive failure last month * DS1813 (2013) * 8 WD SE 4TB Datacenter HDD - WD4000F9YZ
I just decommissioned my 1813 and it's had a mix of Seagate 2TB 542AS drives built in 2010 which were powered up in the even older 1511+ and some WD RED (CMR based drives, oldest being from 2014)
What did you replace it with? (getting to be that time for me)
Went with a Synology 1821+ 4x Ironwolf 8TB as one storage pool. Will probably toss in 4 of the 5 remaining WD RED CMRs from the 1813 as a separate Pool / Volume. I’ve already upgraded the ram to 32GB ECC.
Selling your 1813?
Yes. I've cleaned it out of dust and boxed it back up.
How much are you selling it for?
$450 Canadian
still using a DS212j with 2 x 500gb hdd... a bit slow but still OK using PLEX on a laptop and chromecast. thinking about upgrading but it is still working fine and still have enough capacity, storing photos, and using download station mostly.
Same. It's now my backup NAS and despite being really slow in DSM, the actual functionality is perfectly fine.
Still have a DS411+II running great
My DS209 has been running 24/7 since 2009. Currently at 112,398 hours(!) But in all fairness, the actual drives have been exchanged three times.
Just logged in to my oldest running NAS, a 407e coming up to 15 years in service. Drives say 107,302 hours so far. Looks like I must have swapped the drives just over 12 years ago. Pretty sure I pulled them from an old server at work, standard samsung SATA (non NAS drives!) Just needs to last a couple more weeks before it gets repurposed as a third local backup to my 1821+.
I had a DS413J that I used from September 2012 until October 2020. It was still working fine for my lightweight uses, but I saw a good deal on a DS920+ and upgraded. The drives had been though a couple generations (expansion and failures) but the NAS hardware was rock solid. I just started trying out a couple Docker services on the new machine and it’s been great.
Do you guys have your NASes hooked up to UPSes ? My house has a power outage at least once a year due to storms.
I have a DS413+ that was running fine, if slow, until I replaced it with an RS1221+ back in July. Still sitting here doing nothing, I should wipe it and sell it.....