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!

  • RedFive1976@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months 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.