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Post by Soup on Jun 17, 2019 17:18:29 GMT -5
What do you suggest? Looking at Seagate Iron Wolf 6TB NAS drives....................
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Post by PoloOle on Jun 17, 2019 19:26:34 GMT -5
I use IronWolf with success in my Netgear 2304.
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Post by Loop 7 on Jun 17, 2019 19:45:40 GMT -5
Western Digital Red.
They seem to be designed and built to withstand heat and endless spinning.
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Post by brubacca on Jun 17, 2019 19:47:59 GMT -5
Western Digital RED.
When I was researching drives last year people were complaining about a higher failure rate of the Ironwolf drives. Also consensus was drive above 6tb also had a higher failure rate than those 6tb and below.
Through my own number crunching I figured out that it was cheaper in the long run to buy a 4 bay NAS up front and add more drives (for the hardware I was looking at.
For example... 4 bay nas with 3 4TB drives gives you 8tb storage with redundancy and room for expansion.
2 bay nas with 2 8TB drives cost more.. and to go up in capacity cost much more.
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Post by cburbs on Jun 17, 2019 21:29:30 GMT -5
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Post by LuisV on Jun 18, 2019 6:53:47 GMT -5
WD Red or HGST NAS drives... if you can find the WD Easystore drives on sale for $130 - $140 at BestBuy, buy and shuck them. You typically get a WD White lable; howvever, it has been proven to be the same as a WD Red drive. Numerous videos and Reddit posts on how to shuck and use them. I use WD (shucked and non-shucked) as well as HGST drives in my main and backup unRAID servers.
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Post by millst on Jun 18, 2019 9:47:50 GMT -5
Any NAS-specific drive for a real NAS. Don’t cheap out and buy something like a WD Green for that use. The wad Reds are designed to be run 24/7. However, if it’s more of a media server that doesn’t get much use then the drives probably don’t matter much.
HGST are typically regarded as highest reliability, but other brands are all good. A failure is probably going to happen right away. It’s more important that you run a burn-in test.
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