WD Sharespace replace WD10EADS drive?

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Hi

How can I replace a drive (WD10EADS, 32 Mb Buffer)  in my 4x1TB Sharespace ? I need one new drive that works with the other three WD10EADS, 32 Mb. These are in RAID5 and I need my data.

To which disk should I replace it with?

WD10EADS, 32 Mb Buffer is discontinued.

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Hello, you can try with the WD10EADX. 

http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?groupid=608&lang=en

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Hi

Cannot find the WD10EADX to buy anywhere. At least not in Sweden.

Any options?

Thanks

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Hi again, check the link below to see a list of stores you can try.

http://www.wdc.com/en/buy/

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Sorry, can’t find it anywhere in theses stores. Not even @ WD Online Store.

No EAD* at all…

Can I switch to other drive? EARS or EARX? Or any other suitable?

I guess I eventually need to switch them all? To which can I switch to?

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Currently, the 1 TB Green drive shown on New Egg is the WD10EZRX.

For $10 more the is the 1 TB Red WD10EFRX, which is also an Intelipower drive.

Both of these have 64 MB cache, which will not be a problem.

Red drives are promoted as being for small (up to 5 drive) NAS enclosures. They actually use slightly less power than Green drives. Greens have a 2 year warranty, Reds have a 3 year warranty.

I realize that the New Egg reference is probably no help, but it gives some idea of what is out there.

A search “computer parts sweden” turned up this discussion-

https://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?80635-Swedish-people-where-do-you-buy-your-computer-parts

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HI 

I am just afraid if I start replacing one drive which not have the same spec as the others will the RAID fail?

And will all disks be erased/formatted if I put in a EZRX or EFRX disk with the current WD10EADS?

I am prepared to buy a drive and test as long as it not erases my data.

Can my data be lost?

Thank you

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I am not specifically familiar with the ShareSpace unit. However, RAID 5 is supposed to provide redundancy in the form of distributed (across all the drives in the array) parity data. Replacing one drive should cause the array to rebuild the contents of that drive based on the information in the remaining drives.

Look at page 182 here-

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705006.pdf

What I’m going to say next is not official in any way. I am just another user (My Book Live Duo). However, Red drives are targeted at small NAS enclosures. They did not exist when your documentation was created. They use slightly less power than Green drives. In addition, a Red drive has RAID-specific Error Correction (TLER) which should make it better suited to the enclosure. Just be sure to get the same capacity as the other drives. Anything more will be wasted.

To be plain, I have Red drives in my MBL Duo instead of the Green AV drives it came with. They work just fine. It took some careful work to make them feel at home with the system, but that was because I replaced both drives at the same time. Your situation should be MUCH simpler in a RAID 5 array.

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Thank you. I just want to be sure that the ShareSpace doesn’t start formatting itself as I put in a EFRX/EZRX Green WD10 disk with my WD10EADS.

Should/can I try this?