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!
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.
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.
WD Reds in a RAIDZ2 pool on FreeBSD, serving Samba.
I’ve been using Seagate Ironwolf Pro’s but have been slowly migrating to Seagate EXO’s when upgrading.
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
I have one pool with 3 6TB WD Red Drives and 1 with 3 6TB WD Black drives.
Still running a pair of HGST DeskStar NAS 7200 drives.
They’ve been solid. It’s a shame you can’t get them anymore.
8x 4TB WD Reds and the 26x Dell 1TB drives that came with my Google Search Appliance.
WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc
WD RED for me. My synology ds213+ has been solid with the same drives for last 8 years and still does the job
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.
I use whatever is cheapest at the time of buying. I just make sure they’re not SMR.
wd ultrastar helium
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.
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.