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 $160+tax right now, which I feel is a pretty good price to get these
However, I’m wondering if any of you experienced folks have any other suggestions for me.
Thanks!
1x3Tb WD Red atm its been on for 6.5 years accordning to the smart tool.
I’ve got 3 WD reds with 91,500 hours on them each - that’s over 10 years.
A good reminder I should update my backups this weekend.
Remember that any storage media can fail at any time, for any reason, with or without notice. You can consider Seagate IronWolf Series, WD Red Series or Toshiba N300.
Is shucking still a thing. That is what I did about 3 years ago
Sweet! I was wondering the same thing recently! I have two WD Reds that I bought pre-Covid, but the NAS (2 bay net gear) was an end-of-life super cheap discount and I want a way to keep them running….like, can I wipe net gear and reformat the whole thing? Something I keep meaning to tinker with - but the weekend (for example) I’m likely bed ridden. My body is getting destroyed at my day iob -meh.
Second vote for serverpartdeals.com. I got a great deal on some recertified 16TB WD Ultrastar drives - 164.99 each at the time.
I bought 20+ Recertified Class Western Digital WDC H530 14tb’s for 126.99$ 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.
WR Red Plus for me, it’s a medium size NAS that runs in my bedroom, so they are quite quiet and easy to cool down with a low RPM quiet fan. Decent performance too.
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.
I use several Toshiba MG07/08 in 14 TB. Datacenter drives, CMR, Helium filled, not noisy, 5 year warranty, fast, often relatively cheap.
I have 4x 10 TB WD reds white label I shucked from WD nas boxes.
I also just picked up 2x 20 TB Seagate EXOS drives new for $200 ish on eBay sold by Newegg because I need to very rapidly find a solution for my 18TB unlimited Google drive that is going away in December.
Synology DS414 with 4 x WD 6tb Reds.switched it all on on 2016. No issues since.
Many 1,2TB HGST 2,5" 10k RPM SAS drives For backup some WDs out of external cases
WD Reds
WD Reds in a RAIDZ2 pool on FreeBSD, serving Samba.