Mar 14, 2007
New Hard Drive
As I’ve lost a drive in one of my NAS arrays, I need to replace it. The ReadyNAS can handle different types of drive, but will only perform at the capacity and speed of the smallest and slowest drive in the set. As I have 3 good HDS 400 GB drives and 400 GB is a little on the small side, I thought I’d do a rolling upgrade by putting in a bigger drive. So what’s the largest capacity SATA drive available today? It’s the Seagate Barracuda 750 GB one. So, after checking the HCL at Infrant to ensure it’d work with the ReadyNAS, I noticed that there are a couple of models to choose from – even after ruling out the 8 MB cache in favor of the 16 MB version.
Checking out my favorite store for harddrives, ZipZoomFly, I noticed that there’s a difference in price between the 2 models I’m interested in, the ST3750640AS and the ST3750640NS. Now as the Seagate site is down at the moment (I hope that’s not prophecy), I had a quick look at the Hard OCP Forum before heading to the Infrant Forums where I found a good thread explaining the differences.
Basically the NS version handles the additional heat and vibration better than the AS version, and it’s the one Seagate recommends for running in NAS/RAID configurations. So I got one for $320 and it should arrive in a couple of days.
