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 using four 8TB IronWolf Pro drives in the Intel-based QNAP used for Plex and general fileshares.
I’m using four 14TB IronWolf Pro drives (with two Samsung 2TB NVMe SSDs for cache) in the dedicated iSCSI ARM-based QNAP.
They’ve been great drives.
A 42-drive (7x RAIDZ2) system consisting of:
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36x HGST 4TB NAS drives
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6x Toshiba N300 4TB drives
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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
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.
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.
Mostly it depends on the size of your pool and the type.
My TL;DR is that enterprise drives are likely overkill and aren’t worth the extra cost (yes I can construct a cornercase where they prevent data loss but you’d need it to happen on multiple disks simultaneously, if you’re that worried spend the money on extra backup!). Anything marked RAID or NAS is fine. Don’t put anything designed to save energy into a NAS (eg: WD greens).
You are looking in the wrong place if you pay more for enterprise drives. I used to shuck drives, but you can find enteprise drives for less $/TB and not deal with the possible loss of warranty.
Appreciate the link! Will investigate.
I’m shocked there’s not more people here shucking external drives. https://shucks.top/
I use a 250GB Samsung SDD and an external 1TB WD drive.
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.
Second vote for serverpartdeals.com. I got a great deal on some recertified 16TB WD Ultrastar drives - 164.99 each at the time.
I use whatever is cheapest at the time of buying. I just make sure they’re not SMR.
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.
Get the largest NAS certified drives you can afford.