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What drives do you all use for NAS? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by slashAneesh@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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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[–] idl3mind@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Geek_Verve@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] JoaGamo@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Whatever is CMR and good enough. WD red, Ironwolf, etc

I've got a lot of random hdds, highest capacity are 4TBs ones, all in ceph nodes

[–] RedFive1976@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I've got 9 of the 8TB IronWolfs in my server, and they've been great. The 3 oldest are 4 years old now, and I've grown the size of my array as I could over time, and switched from RAID 5 to RAID 6 for the dual redundancy. Speed is not important in my environment, so I can't speak to that vs WD or Hitachi, but they've been fine for me.

[–] ClayfordG@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Exos, red pro, or any similarly classes drive. Stay away from Toshiba NAS rated drives. Had 3/7 outright fail and two other had indicators of imminent failure all with ~9tb combined writes. Toshiba refused to replace the ones that were imminent. Thankfully we sent nightlies to Azure.

Edit: replaced them all with Exos drives and 1 year later, zero issues.

[–] fofosfederation@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Serverpartdeals has manufacturer referbs of Exos 16-20TB for 200. 8TB is just too small these days, I would not start there.

[–] brankko@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

WR Red Plus for me, it's a medium size NAS that runs in my bedroom, so they are quite quiet and easy to cool down with a low RPM quiet fan. Decent performance too.

[–] FunnyAntennaKid@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I run 4x WD Gold Datacenter Drives 8TB each WD8004FRYZ

And 2 2TB generic desktop hdds.

[–] Schnitzel1337@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Just a bunch of inexpensive disks

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