two 4tb Seagate barracuda 7200 rpm for NAS

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windkiss

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I am about to built a NAS for home video sharing and data backup.
Here in South Korea, the price for 4tb Seagate NAS storage is ~300$ while 4tb barracuda 7200rpm is ~200$.
I planned to build a Raid 1 with 2 bay of 4tb barracuda but I wonder about its reliability.
does anyone here used two 4tb Seagate barracuda 7200 rpm for NAS?
 
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tsnor

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Just make sure the barracuda's are spec'd to run in a raid config. To run in a raid config drive makers shorten error recovery operations so that the raid adapter (or intel chipset driver) doesn't drop a disk out of raid for being non-responsive during error recovery. The barracudas might be great stand alone drives and be horrible for RAID. They symptoms of a non-raid drive are RAID array drops but no problem with the drives, and you can typically rebuild the array until the next time it fails.

Western digital called its raid support TLER and charged extra for it on special 'raid edition' drives.
 
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