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!

  • -SPOF@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

  • KookyWait@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

  • Adept175@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    11 x 14TB Seagate EXOS drives in a RAID6 with 2 hot spares. Bought from multiple sites over several years.

  • Geeotine@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    +1 for Seagate Exos. Same or better than ironwolf and sometimes cheaper. 20TB for $280 is pretty darn good from newegg for data density.

  • gramathy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months 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

  • webbkorey@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’ve got 10 12tb Seagate EXOS drives in operation right now and have also run small capacity (2-4tb) WD Red and blue and Seagate Barracuda drives. For ssds I run Samsung 870 evos.

  • natharas82@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

  • silvarium@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

  • Shty_Dev@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc