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What drives do you all use for NAS? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by slashAneesh@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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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[–] theoisadoor@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Toshiba N300 / Seagate Exos / Seagate Ironwolf

[–] sarosan@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

A 42-drive (7x RAIDZ2) system consisting of:

36x HGST 4TB NAS drives
6x Toshiba N300 4TB drives

[–] ReindeerUnlikely9033@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

The best bit of advice I could give is know what your purpose is.

I needed a storage device, I could have gotten away with 2 external drives and manual labour but instead I got swayed by a QNAP that was a hybrid entertainment centre, virtualisation, docker etc.

I tinker so the amount of times I had to rebuild that NAS means I couldn't reliably use it for storage.

I bought a WD cloud device which I always kept online. That has the drawback of always being available to tinker with.

I just needed a 2 bay NAS and I need it offline.

That's what I have now. The QNAP sits in its box.

[–] RedFive1976@alien.top 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] Schnitzel1337@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Just a bunch of inexpensive disks

[–] edthesmokebeard@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

WD Reds in a RAIDZ2 pool on FreeBSD, serving Samba.

[–] phantom6047@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

WD Reds are great. I have an IronWolf Pro NAS that's amazing, and it has a 5 year warranty which is nice. It's good to look for something with a large cache if you can find it.

[–] csimmons81@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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

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