An Introduction to ZFS

Re:An Introduction to ZFS by buster on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:26AM (#25158409)

Strange. I have some WD disks in my qnap running 24/7 for 8 years now, without a single problem. I'm planning on reusing them in my new NAS..

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Re:An Introduction to ZFS by puzzlingcaptcha on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:50AM (#25158921)

I have a WD Purple I bought in 2014 and it's been running continuously since. 18 months seems extremely short.

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Re:An Introduction to ZFS by simon1573 on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:56AM (#25159602)

Isn't Purple for things like camera feeds? Good on writes, bad on reads.

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Re:An Introduction to ZFS by puzzlingcaptcha on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:48AM (#25159929)

This seems to be the conventional wisdom but I can't say I've experienced it in practice. They have less cache than Reds and the firmware may be tuned for writes but I think it's mostly down to different market positioning/branding & price. You can compare the two: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library... and https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...

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Re:An Introduction to ZFS by rewtraw on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:49PM (#25166561)

Same here, I have over a dozen WD Red drives with over 70,000 power on hours and all pass their SMART tests.

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