![]() ![]() WD Reds and Seagate Iron Wolf drive are very nice to have, but if you already own enough drives, especially if you run RAID 6, go with the old drives, and when one fails, buy a dedicated drive. Makes more sense to try that while Windows is already all set up and then switch over if it doesn't cut it ![]() I'm still going to look into FreeBSD/FreeNAS, but I'll give Storage Spaces another shot first. Should be more than enough space but if not, I'll just pick one up down the line. MysteryĪs for the transcode drive, I'll see how it goes with it on the boot drive. I tried them in a dock as well as internally connected to a different PC but none of the drives were detected at all within Windows. I think it could have been the HBA card not being configured correctly, but even if not, diskpart may have been able to resurrect them. Thinking about it now, after what you and kerradeph said, I'm thinking there was more to it. I bought them from Amazon so I returned them to Amazon without a fuss but it may have been worth giving Seagate a shout - they may have had some ideas. Tried all sorts and indivisually, they were fine but who knows. The weird bit is that I think 5/8 were detected and added to the pool just fine - it was just the last 3. I didn't realise pre-formatting the drives would cause an issue. OS Storage: 256GB Samsung 960 Evo NVME SSD RAM: Adata XPG 16GB 2400MHz (saw it going for £79.94 and went for it) I'll turn it off here and there for updates but really, that should be it. I should say that the PC will be on almost 24/7. Originally I was trying to decide between: WD Reds, HGST Deskstar NAS drives, Toshiba N300s or Seagate IronWolfs, but I'd just as happily buy WD Blues or whatever I can get my hands on if they're cheaper and will work just as well. Is it worth having a separate SSD as a transcoding directory?.I don't necessarily want to spend the extra on NAS drives if I don't have to. Can I use any drives or should I go for purpose built NAS drives such as WD Reds? I recently bought 8 Seagate IronWolf drives, but they all died when the PC went to sleep while wiping them.I want a giant pool that offers some kind of redundancy in case 2 drives were to fail. ![]() It doesn't have to be a RAID solution, but something similar. Is there a software solution similar to RAID6 that will work well for a media server in Windows? I'm aware of Windows Storage Spaces which I've attempted to use in the past but it refused to detect all my drives, even though they had all been formatted in Windows that same day. Ideally, I'd like to stay within Windows. So I'm building a Plex media server I have all my parts except the storage drives. ![]()
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