Question I need help restoring the partition on my WD 8TB My Book ?

[Darkmatterx]

BTW what's the difference between the Red Pro's vs the Plus's? Pro's are just rated for longer life?

BTW WD seems to have a clearance on 8TBs. Maybe they're older, or they may be phasing them out? $229 each for an 8TB Red Pro. That's still $1K for the 4 drives I'd need. :/

Lastly, can you recommend a good NAS? Maybe one with room to grow?

Also, I take it that I probably shouldn't run anything from the NAS directly? For example, a movie.

 

[Misgar]

my Samsung M.2 SSD was getting up to 50 C.

SSDs often run much hotter than hard disks and 50C is nothing to get worried about.

If you thrash them M.2 SSDs hard with prolonged writes, they can hit thermal limiting (throttling) and the controller slows down to avoid overheating.

As a rough rule of thumb, I say if it's M.2 Gen.3, it doesn't really need a heatsink. If it's Gen.4, a heatsink is a good idea. If it's Gen.5, it needs a big heatsink.

 

[Misgar]

That's still $1K for the 4 drives I'd need.

Nobody said bulk storage was cheap. Just imagine how much some people spend on twelve 20TB drives.

Also, I take it that I probably shouldn't run anything from the NAS directly? For example, a movie.

Plenty of people stream movies off Plex servers. Even if it's 4K or 8K video, it's just data. Gigabit tops out around 112MB/s which is more than enough for H.265 4K playback. I use 10GbE SFP+ (optical) NICs in my desktops and servers.

What you should be cautious about is connecting your NAS to the internet. If it doesn't have antivirus, or some other protection, keep it on an isolated net.

 

[USAFRet]

Also, I take it that I probably shouldn't run anything from the NAS directly? For example, a movie.

The NAS is precisely and only where my movie and music libraries live.

From the NAS, through the little HTPC, out to the TV.
Or direct from the NAS to one of the house PC's.

 

[USAFRet]

Lastly, can you recommend a good NAS? Maybe one with room to grow?

QNAP or Synology.
(I have a QNAP TS-453a)

 

[Darkmatterx]

I was looking at the WD Red Pro's. They have a deal on some of them but they're the older 8TBs that are getting bad reviews for noise and heat as they no longer have helium in them.

I was thinking 2 16TB, which will run me about $750 with tax.

Can someone recommend a 4 slot NAS that I can use just 2 slots for now, and expand later if needed?

Thanks

Nobody said bulk storage was cheap. Just imagine how much some people spend on twelve 20TB drives.

Plenty of people stream movies off Plex servers. Even if it's 4K or 8K video, it's just data. Gigabit tops out around 112MB/s which is more than enough for H.265 4K playback. I use 10GbE SFP+ (optical) NICs in my desktops and servers.

What you should be cautious about is connecting your NAS to the internet. If it doesn't have antivirus, or some other protection, keep it on an isolated net.

 

[USAFRet]

Can someone recommend a 4 slot NAS that I can use just 2 slots for now, and expand later if needed?

I think any 4 bay from the above manufacturers will work when partially populated.
I know my QNAP does.

 

[Darkmatterx]

I think any 4 bay from the above manufacturers will work when partially populated.
I know my QNAP does.

Thanks.

I made this as a personal reminder. Hope you don't mind.

https://imgur.com/ay3k143

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[Darkmatterx]

So, as a final report, I shucked the drive and tried using it internally. Other than the slight sound (I think) of the heads initializing, I hear nothing. No drives spinning up. Zero vibrations at all. Because this data isn't critical (the one saving grace in all this) I looked at some YT videos of repairs done when I was looking up how to shuck this thing, so this was before I found out it was dedge. Some YT peeps used clean boxes, some did not...

I saw 2 things that I might have been able to try (since the data I now consider lost) but I don't even think I can do that. The drive appears to have no holes, meaning Helium filled. Assuming you can even remove the cover without damaging it (under the sticker I assume) how long would a Helium drive last without the Helium?

On a more serious note: I would like to look into 1 other option other then a NAS. Cloud storage. I hear rates for large volumes of data aren't bad, but they have different plans regarding retrieval of data.

Anyone have any suggestions for good high TB or unlimited cloud storage with good up/down transfer speeds? At a price of course, which may be the make or break point.

NAS is more convenient, but doesn't save me if there's a fire.

Sorry for the extra post, but since I did try new things and looked up new info, I wanted to share.

And YES, I know that a pro place would be the best/safe way to go. As I said. The data isn't critical, so spending $500-$1000 to either fix for data transfer, or be told I'm SOL, just doesn't feel worth it.

 

[USAFRet]

NAS is more convenient, but doesn't save me if there's a fire.

3-2-1
3 copies, on at least 2 different devices, 1 offsite or otherwise unaccessible.

1 in your PC
2 in the NAS
3 in the cloud

My "cloud" is a couple of drives in a locked drawer at work.