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gorocket1981 wrote: Oh!! Really? It is the crappy drives that are ending in these enclosures?
People seems to have success with them though. So using 4 of these in a NAS and sleep well is maybe not advisable? You make me worrying. Lol
But that TLER thing is what make the drives to work with RAID without issues?
No one said it was a crappy drive. It's simply not at the quality of an equivalent Red drive, which costs significantly more (plus has longer warranty). If you want assurance over the quality of the drive, then you should be looking to buy the actual WD Red drives that costs around $450 - 580 on Amazon.
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anyone having large transfers dropping after a few TBs? couldn't figure it out. all my power settings are on performance in win 10. had to use robocopy, which was successful moving 4TBs.
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gorocket1981 wrote: Oh!! Really? It is the crappy drives that are ending in these enclosures?
People seems to have success with them though. So using 4 of these in a NAS and sleep well is maybe not advisable? You make me worrying. Lol
But that TLER thing is what make the drives to work with RAID without issues?
I never said they are crappy, just they didn't meet the standards...
Yes, lots of people have success with them.. I do as well.. I have multiple shucked drives, and multiple retail drives..
Everyone of my retail drives for example do perform better, even the smart reports on my 5-7 year old retail drives are much better then any of my shucked drives I have purchased over the last 3 years..

Without getting technical, you do not need any Error Recovery <- TLER

If your asking these questions, chances are you are not running a real hardware raid setup, so TLER has zero effect on you...
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GSpeed wrote: I never said they are crappy, just they didn't meet the standards...
Yes, lots of people have success with them.. I do as well.. I have multiple shucked drives, and multiple retail drives..
Everyone of my retail drives for example do perform better, even the smart reports on my 5-7 year old retail drives are much better then any of my shucked drives I have purchased over the last 3 years..

Without getting technical, you do not need any Error Recovery <- TLER

If your asking these questions, chances are you are not running a real hardware raid setup, so TLER has zero effect on you...
I have 2 Synology. One have 4 x 4TB HGST NAS Drive and is running out of space. I usually bought real NAS drive but they are pricey now so I am trying to save but I don’t want issues. I just read a bit and found about this TLER Thing that I never had to care about before. Since it was real NAS drives I never did search to know if it would work. That being said, should I care about this thing or worry?
Thanks!
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WL1980 wrote: Some people have dedicated pornhub server backup.
haha good one.
Media size is quiet large now. Game of thrones alone takes up almost 2TB. Many movies are 50-70GB now. It's easier to fill these drives than you'd think.
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gorocket1981 wrote: I have 2 Synology. One have 4 x 4TB HGST NAS Drive and is running out of space. I usually bought real NAS drive but they are pricey now so I am trying to save but I don’t want issues. I just read a bit and found about this TLER Thing that I never had to care about before. Since it was real NAS drives I never did search to know if it would work. That being said, should I care about this thing or worry?
Thanks!
Synology is not hardware raid....
It's software...
Synology probably has it's own Error Recovery anyways
So TLER wouldn't matter
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I am using this drive as-is as a External drive for offline backup. I find it run hot , keep running on 45c.

I have the 8tb version that I stucked and put into my home server, always running at 25c.
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Just a heads up I got two drives, one EDAZ and one EMFZ:
EMFZ: Requires 3.3v pin mod to be recognized, it's the 14TB Helium filled drive with 512Mb cache but firmware locked to 12TB.
EDAZ: Did not require 3.3v pin mod. This is the 12TB Helium filled drive with 256Mb cache.
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Jan 17, 2017
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Thx OP. Decided to bite the bullet on this. Will be sticking this in to my WD EX2 Ultra NAS.
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Bought 2 as well to shuck and pop into Synology DS920+
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TooMiiiKaHh wrote: haha good one.
Media size is quiet large now. Game of thrones alone takes up almost 2TB. Many movies are 50-70GB now. It's easier to fill these drives than you'd think.
1.54 TB (1,698,672,314,033 bytes)
Just a guess?
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TooMiiiKaHh wrote: 1.73 ;)
Oops correct, I removed S1
on S4 now
Not something I will keep <- can always require
It's 70 hours.... + heard it ended horribly
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Do you guys use WD Drive Utilities for Mac for the test? Looks like the WD Lifeguard is a windows only software.
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well I got the same as alot of people. The EDAZ drive.
Running WD Lifeguard on it and it is estimated to take 18 hours. Running fairly hot though.....but steady at 55 degrees.....still inside the enclosure. Will be throwing into the NAS later.
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i'm getting as reading of 48 Degr Celsius. in the original Western digital enclosure. Currently running lifeguard. 18HRS left. Is this a concern?

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