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’m shocked there’s not more people here shucking external drives. https://shucks.top/
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
Been using Toshiba enterprise disks, specifically the ‘cloud scale’ product lines such as Toshiba MG09
Decent priced, good quality.
None of them have failed me yet.
Toshiba N300 / Seagate Exos / Seagate Ironwolf
I use whatever is cheapest at the time of buying. I just make sure they’re not SMR.
WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc
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.
1x3Tb WD Red atm its been on for 6.5 years accordning to the smart tool.
WD Reds
Second vote for serverpartdeals.com. I got a great deal on some recertified 16TB WD Ultrastar drives - 164.99 each at the time.
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.
8x 4TB WD Reds and the 26x Dell 1TB drives that came with my Google Search Appliance.
I have one pool with 3 6TB WD Red Drives and 1 with 3 6TB WD Black drives.
I’ve got some 4Tb SAS drives and a 6tb Seagate ironwolf, need to fill out the 6tb pool but new drives aren’t cheap here at the moment. 6tb ironwolfs are $250-300 where I am and not sure I want to risk data with old SAS drives from eBay etc.
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:
