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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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
I’m in Europe and seeing your us prices just makes me cry :(
I use a 250GB Samsung SDD and an external 1TB WD drive.
I have 2 1tb ssd’s for all my vm’s and stuff.
And then I’m using a single 8TB barracuda for movies and media. It’s surprisingly more space than you think, and I’m just in the habit of deleting stuff after I’m done with it.
Went with the barracuda cuz I didn’t plan on using raid and figured it’d be quieter than the ironwolf.
I’m shocked there’s not more people here shucking external drives. https://shucks.top/
WD Reds
I use whatever is cheapest at the time of buying. I just make sure they’re not SMR.
WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc
11 x 14TB Seagate EXOS drives in a RAID6 with 2 hot spares. Bought from multiple sites over several years.
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.
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:
Still running a pair of HGST DeskStar NAS 7200 drives.
They’ve been solid. It’s a shame you can’t get them anymore.
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.
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.
