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 $160+tax right now, which I feel is a pretty good price to get these
However, I’m wondering if any of you experienced folks have any other suggestions for me.
Thanks!
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I bought a bunch of factory recertified WD 16TB drives for way less than new from serverpartdeals.com.
I use whatever is cheapest at the time of buying. I just make sure they’re not SMR.
If you’re gonna build for redundancy, avoid WD Red. They use SMR platters and it doesn’t play nice with RAID configs. You’d have to get a WD red plus or red pro to get a CMR drive which actually works in a RAID array. You don’t have to worry about accidentally getting an SMR drive with ironwolf though since that whole section is Seagate’s branding only uses CMR.
WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc
WD Reds
Get the largest NAS certified drives you can afford.
1x3Tb WD Red atm its been on for 6.5 years accordning to the smart tool.
I bought 20+ Recertified Class Western Digital WDC H530 14tb’s for 126.99$ each from serverpartsdeals.com over the last six months. Comes with a 2 year warranty, which is about what you would expect a drive to have anyways.
I also have a dozen Ironwolf 12tb’s (no pro) which have 3yr warranty, but still, if I had new about the recertified drives then I would’ve been all over those.
Really its about how much space do you need, how many SATA slots can you fill, and your use for them.
Many 1,2TB HGST 2,5" 10k RPM SAS drives For backup some WDs out of external cases
The spinny kind. Until they stop go go spinny and then I get new bigger and sometimes better spinny drives.
I have such a smorgasbord of drives. Bunch of 2.5" firecudas 1-2tb, old 1tb drives, thrift store external, shucked 8tb baracudas, new bare disk 8tb barracuda, 4tb HGST NAS, 8tb Ironwolf and more I’m sure.
FWIW, the Ironwolf is really nice and I wish all my drives were them. File transfer speeds are respectable for spinning rust.
I’m in Europe and seeing your us prices just makes me cry :(
WD Reds are great. I have an IronWolf Pro NAS that’s amazing, and it has a 5 year warranty which is nice. It’s good to look for something with a large cache if you can find it.
WD Reds in a RAIDZ2 pool on FreeBSD, serving Samba.
I’m using four 8TB IronWolf Pro drives in the Intel-based QNAP used for Plex and general fileshares.
I’m using four 14TB IronWolf Pro drives (with two Samsung 2TB NVMe SSDs for cache) in the dedicated iSCSI ARM-based QNAP.
They’ve been great drives.
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.