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expired Posted by TalentedHaddock2057 • Jul 23, 2023
Jul 23, 2023 3:29 AM
Refurbished: 14TB Western Digital Ultrastar 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5" Hard Drives
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I can't say for certain but I don't think many USB docks supply 3.3V, so it's unlikely to be a problem. I'd be more concerned about whether an adapter of that age will support this drive. I've seen some SATA-USB bridges that don't play well with these big drives.
I'm only half joking when I say, if you don't know the answers to these questions, you shouldn't be fooling with RAID and if you do know the answers, you'll know better than to mess with it. My more serious answer is, RAID isn't something that should be undertaken lightly. There can be serious drawbacks that are not always obvious. You should do some serious research before messing with it.
The E6L1.
This has been answered multiple times already.
WUH721414ALE6L1 - Self-Encrypting Drive and does NOT have the Power Disable feature (thus more likely to be compatible).
WUH721414ALE604 - Base model (no encryption) and DOES have the Power Disable feature.
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​should I get the WUH721414ALE6L1 then?
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Note there are two different drives here. A "normal" one and a SED -> Self encrypting drive which will pair w/ OPAL software to do hardware encryption. Most people will not use that but you can buy either part number that is available.
Price wise this is excellent its less than 50% the cost of a new one, so you can do your own risk assessment but in the last 10 years I have bought 90% many recert and not one of the 15+ drives has died. Now 1 of the two new ones did (a Seagate), they replaced it w/ a recert and it is now 7 years old.
This is small evidence however I have replaced thousands of drives in my day so all I can tell you is that outside bad batches of drives, dying drives is pretty random and they usually die outside 5 years so warranties are rarely exercised. The two year one will help if there is some nagging mechanical, surface, or bad batch which should have been caught in the recert.
HTH
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HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch Data Center HDD - WUH721414ALE604 0F31152 (Renewed) https://a.co/d/0ILA76y
before deployment, do you test the drives via the synology extended SMART test or on a PC using the WD diagnostic tools?
any input appreciated
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Is it possible to add another one of these as a blank and then stripe it with my current 14tb drive so that I could have some redundancy? Are there any RAID formats where you can add multiple drives but the total TB is greater than any one drive? e.g. 3x 14tb drives but striped in a way that say, the total available space is more like 20tb instead of 14tb?
Thanks in advance!