07-29-2022, 05:30 AM
I have two Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB from around 2011 in Raid 1 inside a Patriot Javelin S4, was used continually for 3-4 years as media stream cloud then occasionally these last years for media backup and storage, not yet to capacity. One drive is now giving me some trouble with some errors and the array has rebuilt now a third time in just a few months with little run time.
I'm weighing my options:, to expand the NAS to 3 or 4 drives and re-map a RAID 5. Or upgrade to a new NAS away from Linux file system as I run windows format in everything else.
Question: What drive should I be searching for to rebuild and expand the array?
Is the newer Red NAS drives sufficient to pair with the old working one or should I be looking to match the old Caviar Green?
Thank you, for your expertise and time.
ps if I were looking for a new NAS system for Raid 5 or 6 what would you recommend ?
I'm weighing my options:, to expand the NAS to 3 or 4 drives and re-map a RAID 5. Or upgrade to a new NAS away from Linux file system as I run windows format in everything else.
Question: What drive should I be searching for to rebuild and expand the array?
Is the newer Red NAS drives sufficient to pair with the old working one or should I be looking to match the old Caviar Green?
Thank you, for your expertise and time.
ps if I were looking for a new NAS system for Raid 5 or 6 what would you recommend ?