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!
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.
Is shucking still a thing. That is what I did about 3 years ago
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
WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc
Get the largest NAS certified drives you can afford.
I use a 250GB Samsung SDD and an external 1TB WD drive.
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 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.
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.
WD RED for me. My synology ds213+ has been solid with the same drives for last 8 years and still does the job
I’m shocked there’s not more people here shucking external drives. https://shucks.top/
WD Reds
Still running a pair of HGST DeskStar NAS 7200 drives.
They’ve been solid. It’s a shame you can’t get them anymore.
8x 4TB WD Reds and the 26x Dell 1TB drives that came with my Google Search Appliance.