With black Friday sales coming up, I’m hoping to start building a NAS for my home. I have the server and stuff, but wondering which drives to get for storage.

From everything I’ve looked at, seems like Seagate Ironwolf and WD Red seem to be highly recommended. I’m leaning towards the Ironwolf 8TB drives right now. These are retailing for $160+tax right now, which I feel is a pretty good price to get these

However, I’m wondering if any of you experienced folks have any other suggestions for me.

Thanks!

  • Geek_Verve@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Redundancy and accessibility were my driving factors. I rip all my DVDs and Blu-Rays to my movie library and share them out to friends and family.

    I’ve been using an array of WD Red 4TB drives for a few years, now. No complaints.

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    1 year ago

    A 42-drive (7x RAIDZ2) system consisting of:

    • 36x HGST 4TB NAS drives

    • 6x Toshiba N300 4TB drives

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    1 year ago

    Currently using WD red plus drives, once I get some financial freedom to expand probably going to switch to ultra stars or seagates unless I can get a good deal on red pros

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    1 year ago

    Mostly it depends on the size of your pool and the type.

    My TL;DR is that enterprise drives are likely overkill and aren’t worth the extra cost (yes I can construct a cornercase where they prevent data loss but you’d need it to happen on multiple disks simultaneously, if you’re that worried spend the money on extra backup!). Anything marked RAID or NAS is fine. Don’t put anything designed to save energy into a NAS (eg: WD greens).

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    1 year ago

    I’ve got 10 12tb Seagate EXOS drives in operation right now and have also run small capacity (2-4tb) WD Red and blue and Seagate Barracuda drives. For ssds I run Samsung 870 evos.

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    1 year ago

    Got 2 NASes (on site/off site). One has WD Red, the other has Seagate Ironwolf. I want to upgrade them to EXOS drives, but they’re running well.

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    If you’re gonna build for redundancy, avoid WD Red. They use SMR platters and it doesn’t play nice with RAID configs. You’d have to get a WD red plus or red pro to get a CMR drive which actually works in a RAID array. You don’t have to worry about accidentally getting an SMR drive with ironwolf though since that whole section is Seagate’s branding only uses CMR.

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    1 year ago

    WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc