8T*4 Microsoft Storage Pool Build! Seagate Expansion and Backup HUB removed only for hard drives
Last time we removed two old Seagate 8T Backup Plus, two 8T warehouse trays have been used to feel good. Gen8 does not want to be hard Raid5 (wallet is limited), more than one drive letter is too cumbersome to manage, thus playing the idea of ​​the storage pool function of Windows Server 2012 R2.
The price of the two mobile hard drives on the 8T above the US and Asia is good, so it's time to place an order, but also take a look at the inside of the hard disk drive model is not the same. Are you curious?
Removing the Seagate Seagate 8T archive drive from a removable drive is cheaper than buying a bare disk alone! The reason for starting these two drives is that the NAS's hard drive is full, and large-capacity hard drives are required to expand the storage. After checking the cats and dogs website, it was found that it was still cheaper in the United States and Asia. And, interestingly, the mobile hard disk is actually cheaper than buying a bare disk alone! Check out the online hard drive is ST's archive hard drive, then immediately buy orders to buy! Amiya direct mail speed packaging is also completely no damage open box tear plastic film next is a sealing paste to open the package, which is the front door of recycled paper alley | Like12 Comments32 Collection61View details Meia and the United States and South Korea placed two orders at the same time, but the arrival of goods was not the same time. It was not a logistics that seemed to go. Fortunately, the packaging is intact.
Unique internal bubble bag filling, mobile hard disk packaging intact
This is the MAC version of Backup Plus HUB, with USB3 HUB
This is Expansion, there is no HUB function, but there is no cheaper version with HUB
Are all 8TB capacity, which is the highest cost performance? ?
Exciting tear film moment arrives, a thin layer of film ah, is the difference between original and secondhand
The internal packaging method is slightly different.
MAC Version Backup Plus Hub
The white version is the MAC version.
The feel of the Expansion feels very comfortable, unlike the old Backup Plus, which was removed last time and it is easy to cut the edges.
Accessories are simple (kou men), power adapter (wide voltage) plus USB3 data cable
The white MAC version Backup Plus HUB, Seagate's Logo in front of the indicator.
The appearance of the honeycomb shape is very high and it feels good to use.
Contrast between the two sizes, the size is not much difference
Parts have more global power plugs than black ones
Demolition of the black expansion is still relatively simple, to identify a place, hard to open, and the clip is inevitable.
The main PCB is triangular and the screws are fixed to the hard disk. Four corners of the hard disk have shock-absorbing rubber blocks
The circuit board was removed, and the circuit board was also shielded and fixed to the hard disk body using aluminum foil.
The white ones are much more difficult to remove, and the clips are much tighter than the black ones. It takes a lot of effort to open the box.
There are many metal shields inside
The light of the indicator light passes through the light guide to the outside Seagate logo.
Rubber bumper around the hard disk is standard
Because of the USB 3.0 HUB on the PCB, the circuit board is much larger. This version is a USB3 HUB may also be used.
Is there a difference between two hard disks? No, exactly the same 8T archive disk.
Due to the use of Soft Raid for Windows Server 2012 R2, hardware Raid on the Gen8 board was turned off and changed to normal AHCI mode. And because of this model, Gen8 can only boot from hard disk box number 1. So I decided to buy a bootable SATA card and put the system disk SSD on a bootable SATA card. Gen8's 3.5-inch hard drive is dedicated to data storage just fine.
JD orders, as always, is very fast, the same day to order the day.
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First set up this SATA card as the boot device in the Gen8 BIOS. The boot SSD can be started by hanging it on the SATA card.
The server installation Server 2012 R2 experience is very good, basically do nothing, just wait for the installation to complete.
The two 8T archive disks and the last removed Backup Plus are the same model
The following is the storage pool setting for Windows Server 2012 R2. Four hard disks are set to the storage pool.
In order to balance capacity and security, the storage mode is set to parity mode, so that four hard disks can recover data even if one block is damaged.
The maximum capacity of the storage pool that consists of 4 blocks of 8T parity is set to be 22T. Movies are stored locally. (No big sister)
This test is a single disk read test of the 8T archive disk.
After composing the storage pool, reading the test speed is simply counterfeiting. In fact, it should be a false number caused by the cache set by the software. The number of actual copy tests is about the same as the single-disk read speed.
Regarding the writing speed, the CPU of the Gen8 is relatively poor. Adding parity requires a lot of CPU resources, so it is expected that writing numbers is definitely lower. Because the hard disk is already in COPY data, there is no way to perform destructive write tests. The actual COPY write speed is about 20-30M. Originally, the write speed of the archive disk was a weak item, coupled with the weak and weak CPU processing capability, and the write speed was almost the same. Fortunately, this Gen8 is a stored movie, usually only has a read speed, writing speed is not required. So it's enough.
※Test finished ※
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