My nas drive is starting to fail

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i have a couple of nas drives, it seems they are starting to fail.

Can anyone recommend some good nas enclosures or other options please.

Many thanks.
 
Starting to fail in what way Chris? The enclosures are normally pretty bomb proof - its the drives that can cause problems.
 
Analoguesat said:
Starting to fail in what way Chris? The enclosures are normally pretty bomb proof - its the drives that can cause problems.
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Some thing is causing it to just stop. And the fans start up (just like the crystal maze) and nothing it drops everything.

I have to unpower it for a few mins, then it's back and running, as soon as the PC or music streamer access the nas, it stops.
 
Its not just overheating due to dust ingestion is it? But that doesnt sound good - get your data backed up asap.

Ive run a netgear readynas duos for several years now. Ive had to replace the drives a couple of times due to dirty shutdowns caused by powercuts & Ive got a different make now as well now so I can back up to it - one of the jobs for the Christmas holidays. When I rarreange the tv corner when we finally get a flatscreen tv the NAS's will be put on a battery backup system

Synology NAS's are well regarded but the kit can be expensive. Have a look at the Edugeek forums - theres a lot of chat about the relative merits of NAS's on there as they have a lot of use in education.
 
I was also thinking along the lines, of a proper nas.

I have 4 nas drives around here now. So wanted to combine them all to 1 unit.

I am starting to get the data off them.
 
You can get multi drive NAS's now which stripe the data in such a way that they can survive the loss of more than one drive simultaneously.

Or you could build your own kit with something like the FREENAS operating system. (Various unix flavours of NASare available - thats the one whose name I can remember atm.)
 
I did look at free nas, I would just need to find a cpu/board and memory.

The 32bit has been dropped now, but the 64 bit needs a 1.2ghz cpu and 8gb of memory.

So hopefully I can pick up a cheap board deal.
 
What brand(s) of NAS drive is going bad?

I have several, but they are not kept out in the open were dust (and other things) can get at them, they are inside my gun vault, it is temperature and humidity controlled, they are also on a good UPS system, so I don't worry too much about the power.
 
I've had a ReadyNAS Duo since 2011.
The software is starting to feel a bit old, but the unit itself is working, as has served the house for 5 years now.
The only mechanical thing is the fan - it's become very noisy, I need to get a replacement.

The unit is configured with 2 x 2TB disks in RAID1 (mirror).
I have been expecting the day one of the two disks died for some time.
Coincidentally, that day was two weeks ago.
Had a spare 2TB bought for this very reason lying around, popped the old one out, and the new one in, and after 9 hours, it's fully rebuilt.

Although a 4-drive will give higher read data-rates, it's unlikely that I will need that.
The NAS is used for all photos, audio-files, and some video backup.
TV stuff is kept at the receivers for now; nothing's that important if it came over the air...

If you need a or b is probably more of a personal taste.
The ReadyNAS was recommended by a friend, and it has done what it promised so far.
Again, as with most other things, you mostly get what you pay for.
 
Here is some good info on NAS drives from PC mag.

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Terryl said:
What brand(s) of NAS drive is going bad?

I have several, but they are not kept out in the open were dust (and other things) can get at them, they are inside my gun vault, it is temperature and humidity controlled, they are also on a good UPS system, so I don't worry too much about the power.
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It's a d-link dns-320
 
I have the Synology unit, which also serves Plex, Sickbeard and other stuff. I have proper NAS drives in there from WD (the Red units). These can deal with minor sector read errors without breaking the RAID as normal desktop drives would. There are 4x 3TB drives there offering 9TB of usable data with one drive for recovery.
 
Yes Ive moved over to WD Red drives as well. Worth a few extra quid for the added bit of reliability
 
Here is where I store a ton of my data.
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It's also water cooled.
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Water cooling system.
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Inside.
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Four-4 TB hard drives in a RAID setup.

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Keeps it nice and cool.
 
Chris1979 said:
I did look at free nas, I would just need to find a cpu/board and memory.

The 32bit has been dropped now, but the 64 bit needs a 1.2ghz cpu and 8gb of memory.

So hopefully I can pick up a cheap board deal.
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If you don't mind the size, you can find cheap, used server cards on ebay. They usually have lots of sata ports on board and ecc ram to them are cheap as well.
 
Sorry for hijack but would @Terryl mind directing me to a good starting point for liquid cooling? I'm having trouble finding a CPU block for AMD's socket F. If I have to do one myself, I'm wondering a self-circulating system would work.
 
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