Hello all,
Short summary, I have a FreeNAS setup at home with 4 x 3TB Seagate HDDs in a RAIDZ1 setup and yesterday one of the HDD failed (seems i'm on Santa's naughty list). It starting making ticking noises and when I logged in I got an alert "server state is degraded", I placed it offline to stop the ticking noises and looking up buying a new HDD to replace it.
However I have a few concerns as all the HDDs have been bought together 4 years ago:
Short summary, I have a FreeNAS setup at home with 4 x 3TB Seagate HDDs in a RAIDZ1 setup and yesterday one of the HDD failed (seems i'm on Santa's naughty list). It starting making ticking noises and when I logged in I got an alert "server state is degraded", I placed it offline to stop the ticking noises and looking up buying a new HDD to replace it.
However I have a few concerns as all the HDDs have been bought together 4 years ago:
- Is there a high probability of the other HDDs failing?
- Is it a good idea to replace the malfunctioning HDD with another 3TB brand, WD red? because 3TB Seagate is currently unavailable where i live and need to wait at least 10 days for a shipment to arrive.
- Buying a new set of 4 x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf and replacing all existing HDDs. Seagate has a cheaper price compared to WD, for example: 4TB Seagate is $139 while WD 3TB is $107. Side note: should I increase the RAM if I get 4 x 4TB, current setup has 8GB RAM.
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