HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000

[linus]

I have four of the 3TB 5400RPM Hitachi SATA3 disks in my DS411+ (DSM 3.1-current) and all is well thus far. Have a post in the HDD compatibility thread that is pending approval.

Model HDS5C3030ALA630 to be exact (per DSM.)

How are you getting on with these HDDs? I have just purchased a DS212j/6tb from Amazon (UK), to find these drives installed. I was a little surprised given these are not on the compatibility list, and when I contacted Synology support they advised me they don't bundle devices with drives so either Amazon have done this or their supplier has. I contacted them to see what they say, but I'm not sure how comfortable I am using these unconfirmed drives! Thanks, Linus

[Noah]

For you guys that have good performance with the Hitachi 3TB hard drives (model HDS5C3030ALA630) 32MB cache, coolspin, how did you upgrade your NAS?

I have the DS410, RAID 5, upgraded 4 2TB, to 4 3TB, one by one, letting the NAS rebuild 4 times, then a 5th time to increase the actual capacity.

But it seems like things are slow when opening and listing directories, takes 10-15 seconds to list medium size directories, even after the drives should have "warmed" up as I did other HD operations to warm it up.

How did you upgrade your drives? 1 by 1? I'm wonder why my directory browsing and listing performance seems to have taken a big hit after the upgrade.

Thanks for any help!

Do you still have these problems with these drives? I am considering buying them for a 1512+/1812+, and I already got a hint resuming from hibernation also is (irritating) slow with these disks. I am easily irritated when I have to wait for a computer to respond

[rodef]

What is going on with hard drive prices? 13 months ago, I bought a 7K3000 3TB drive for £120.

Now the slower 5K3000 version is £150!! This is crazy.