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!

  • AllTheModzAreCancer@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    WD Gold 10TB but I miss the HGST Ultrastar days (before WD got them) HGST added something when they took IBM’s disk drive business, but something was lost when WD acquired them.

    I’m a noob too, but I can tell you that you need to keep in mind the purpose of your NAS. Ask yourself this: am I storing archives that will probably not be accessed much, or am I hosting a filesharing service or streaming or something else that will need a bigger cache and more RPMs? Also try to prioritize CMR over SMR.

    When I built my NAS 3 years ago I bought a used SuperMicro MB, a used Xeon CPU, used ECC RAM, and it’s still going strong. My WD Gold drives were new of course, but you can find some good deals on used drives too. Just make sure that you take into account not only the hours on the drive but reads, writes, and stop/starts too. Also look at the seller’s rep to see if they have a history of reprogramming the ROM to show a false SMART.

    Hopefully you are using SMR ram and a ZFS filesystem. TrueNAS is a great OS that uses openZFS and RAIDZ. If you are using lower-end or used NAS drives then consider using more parity drives than if you were to use new, enterprise quality drives.

  • kidmock@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    In 2013, I bought 12 4TB HGST. I just got my first drive failure last month and I’m going through the process of replacing them all with Seagate Exos X16 16TB just because I got a good deal.

    I, typically, just buy whatever has the best price/performance ratio.

  • csimmons81@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been using Seagate Ironwolf Pro’s but have been slowly migrating to Seagate EXO’s when upgrading.

  • gramathy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 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

  • fahim-sabir@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Still running a pair of HGST DeskStar NAS 7200 drives.

    They’ve been solid. It’s a shame you can’t get them anymore.

  • Shty_Dev@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

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

  • BibleReaderMK@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    WD RED for me. My synology ds213+ has been solid with the same drives for last 8 years and still does the job

  • dadarkgtprince@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • silvarium@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 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.

  • postnick@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.