I am on a very tight budget and wish to get 3 4tb drives for my NAS.
I have seen in alot of threads to avoid seagate drives. I was originally considering
http://www.msy.com.au/nsw/hurstville/pc-components/5265-seag…
If not, what model or brand do you guys consider?
This NAS is for media and file storage.
I want to place my videos on it and stream off it. (Home use)
Thanks
toshiba enterprise grade hdd's
Toshiba drives usually get the recommendation, i'm yet to try them out myself.
Ive ran numerous types of home server raid array's over the past decade. Originally used seagate, then wd greens. Always had problems with drives failing or dropping from the array.
I picked up 7x4tb wd red's in an ebay sale last year. To date they have been flawless, not a single issue (and I have had many, MANY various issues with different raid array's in the past). So the WD red's get my vote :)
I picked up 7x4tb wd red's in an ebay sale last year. To date they have been flawless, not a single issue (and I have had many, MANY various issues with different raid array's in the past). So the WD red's get my vote :)
I have one on me now. I freaking hate it. The first drive wouldn't write past 2tb/3.63tb (they are set on GPT). Western digital sent me a replacement, this one seems even worse, write speed is 120MB/s for the first few GBs, then fluctuates between 10-20MB/s.
I have a WD Black.. if I could turn back time I'd definitely gone for a non-NAS drive. Thought these were supposed to be more reliable, but these are slow as a turtle if you use them as a normal storage harddrive :(
P.s. Both WD Black and Red drives are connected internally in a PC (No NAS).
Thought the use of it as a storage drive would be fine :|
Depending on your hardware, software, and RAID (or other) arrangement, the seagate 8TB archives could offer most bang for buck.
For different RAID levels you'll see drives in different applications which will affect both actual usable storage and level of protection.
so more detail is required on your hard and software before conclusive advice can be offered.
A difference that I've found with wd reds is that their temperatures are lower.
This is important if there is not much room in your NAS or the disks are stacked on top of each other heating up the disks on top of it.
i run 5x4tb seagate barracuda's in a sinology ds1511+, ripped out of some desktop cases from office works - i've always used seagate as I've found that WD drives are quite slow. i've never had any issues with disks dying- for the most part the naps keeps the HDD's turned off until they're needed.
If you are using them for a NAS then I would suggest waiting for a deal on WD Red or Seagate NAS drives as they are designed with NAS applications in mind and will hopefully provide better longevity for these purposes.