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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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.
WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc
WD Reds
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.
Second vote for serverpartdeals.com. I got a great deal on some recertified 16TB WD Ultrastar drives - 164.99 each at the time.
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.
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:
Get the largest NAS certified drives you can afford.
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.
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.
4x 1tb critical mx500 drive. In a 2x2 setup so only 2tb of space in 4 drives. That with asnapshot copy to a 2tb nvme.
Really I’m only using like 500 gigs on my nas.
wd ultrastar helium
I’m shocked there’s not more people here shucking external drives. https://shucks.top/
