Michael Romano
Well-known member
They're great but suggest buying a spare disk or two at the time of purchase. My oldest one had two drive failures (HGST NON-enterprise) at almost the same time. Since the unit was a few years old at that point, it was impossible to get drives running the same firmware. I ended up having to send the whole lot of them back to HGST to get flashed as I didn't have a compatible motherboard for the firmware utility they have. Shut it down for like a month. This applies to just about any RAID though. I'm leaning toward RAAID6 in light of this event from now on.