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 use a 250GB Samsung SDD and an external 1TB WD drive.
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:
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.
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 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.
WD RED for me. My synology ds213+ has been solid with the same drives for last 8 years and still does the job
+1 for Seagate Exos. Same or better than ironwolf and sometimes cheaper. 20TB for $280 is pretty darn good from newegg for data density.
I’ve got 10 12tb Seagate EXOS drives in operation right now and have also run small capacity (2-4tb) WD Red and blue and Seagate Barracuda drives. For ssds I run Samsung 870 evos.
Sweet! I was wondering the same thing recently! I have two WD Reds that I bought pre-Covid, but the NAS (2 bay net gear) was an end-of-life super cheap discount and I want a way to keep them running….like, can I wipe net gear and reformat the whole thing? Something I keep meaning to tinker with - but the weekend (for example) I’m likely bed ridden. My body is getting destroyed at my day iob -meh.
I bought 20+ Recertified Class Western Digital WDC H530 14tb’s for 126.99$ each from serverpartsdeals.com over the last six months. Comes with a 2 year warranty, which is about what you would expect a drive to have anyways.
I also have a dozen Ironwolf 12tb’s (no pro) which have 3yr warranty, but still, if I had new about the recertified drives then I would’ve been all over those.
Really its about how much space do you need, how many SATA slots can you fill, and your use for them.
Many 1,2TB HGST 2,5" 10k RPM SAS drives For backup some WDs out of external cases
The spinny kind. Until they stop go go spinny and then I get new bigger and sometimes better spinny drives.
I have such a smorgasbord of drives. Bunch of 2.5" firecudas 1-2tb, old 1tb drives, thrift store external, shucked 8tb baracudas, new bare disk 8tb barracuda, 4tb HGST NAS, 8tb Ironwolf and more I’m sure.
FWIW, the Ironwolf is really nice and I wish all my drives were them. File transfer speeds are respectable for spinning rust.
