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!
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8x 4TB WD Reds and the 26x Dell 1TB drives that came with my Google Search Appliance.
11 x 14TB Seagate EXOS drives in a RAID6 with 2 hot spares. Bought from multiple sites over several years.
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
Yep, WD Red CMR. I’ve been running with them exclusively and never had any issues.
A typical drive in my setup: 8 years continuous operation, 0 bad sectors. Rock solid:
I have one pool with 3 6TB WD Red Drives and 1 with 3 6TB WD Black drives.
I’ve got 3 WD reds with 91,500 hours on them each - that’s over 10 years.
A good reminder I should update my backups this weekend.
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.
Still running a pair of HGST DeskStar NAS 7200 drives.
They’ve been solid. It’s a shame you can’t get them anymore.
WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc
wd ultrastar helium
I use whatever is cheapest at the time of buying. I just make sure they’re not SMR.
I use a 250GB Samsung SDD and an external 1TB WD drive.
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.
1x3Tb WD Red atm its been on for 6.5 years accordning to the smart tool.
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).
