I have been running my 2x seagate 4TB drives since 2014. Its time to retire them and get larger. Seagate or WD or Toshiba?
What brand of NAS hard disk? No SSD's please...
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Backblaze has been publishing their failure rates on drives for a number of years.
Here is a link to their latest report;
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2024/
I'm buying WD to install in a spare PC running TrueNAS Scale. 15% discount for seniors (55+) when buying direct. Toms Hardware rates NAS drives here https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-hard-drives
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Western Digital Black….
Careful,
Get the one with 256MB cache,
and make sure the seller is NewEgg
https://www.newegg.com/black-wd4006fzbx-4tb-hard-drive/p/N82E16822234560
Careful,
Get the one with 256MB cache,
and make sure the seller is NewEgg
https://www.newegg.com/black-wd4006fzbx-4tb-hard-drive/p/N82E16822234560
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I had the same dilemma a while back and decided on Toshiba after research.
This is why I drive hours to a Micro Center so I can get it from the store and avoid the rough handling of the last mile of shipping. It's a long drive but I pair it with other things, going to MC is like Disney Land for me though lol.
This is why I drive hours to a Micro Center so I can get it from the store and avoid the rough handling of the last mile of shipping. It's a long drive but I pair it with other things, going to MC is like Disney Land for me though lol.
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For NAS drives, I typically use WD's RED NAS drives. They seem to hold up well, I've probably got 50 or 60 of them in service right now?
I too suggest WD Red for consumer grade and price point.
We are having so-so luck with WD Golds at work, at least 14TB ones. Seagate Enterprise should be good. But those are Corp level disks.
We are having so-so luck with WD Golds at work, at least 14TB ones. Seagate Enterprise should be good. But those are Corp level disks.
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If they are good enough for a nuclear facility, they must be good enough for everyone. I have 6 WD Red Plus', multiple Blues and 2 Purples, all work great.
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I don't work in a nuclear facility, I've just been accused by one of our operators of being a disgruntled employee, lol
I work in healthcare, I'm involved in nuclear from an advocacy and education perspective (I'm a board member of a non-profit), but it is not my employer.
we use western digital purple surveillance drives.
WD "typically" have better reliability than Seagate from common consensus, but that's not a guarantee as special build drives like video recording or security drives tend to be good for Seagate as well.
There was a big complain about WD Red for NAS back then when WD secretly change the design to shingled drive and cause some NAS to fail, and people complain enough for WD to accept return for refunds. I am not sure if that is addressed now but when in doubt, buy a WD Red Plus instead of a WD Red and check for review online to see if it is a problem for your NAS.
My home security system has 1 Seagate Enterprise 1TB (6 year) and a 8TB WD Purple (2 year), so far so good.
There was a big complain about WD Red for NAS back then when WD secretly change the design to shingled drive and cause some NAS to fail, and people complain enough for WD to accept return for refunds. I am not sure if that is addressed now but when in doubt, buy a WD Red Plus instead of a WD Red and check for review online to see if it is a problem for your NAS.
My home security system has 1 Seagate Enterprise 1TB (6 year) and a 8TB WD Purple (2 year), so far so good.
I have a couple of seagate drives for the win. Their office is in my town and I had a couple of neighbors that worked for them. Not sure if they're still offered but I bought a Seagate hybrid hdd years ahead that was 250ish gb but had 4gb ssd for quick start up etc.
I have it down to toshiba N300 16TB (non pro version) or the seagate exos x18 16TB model.
Which would be the winner?
Which would be the winner?
I've had good luck with the Toshiba N300 series drives.
I had one fail and get RMA'ed. It was a drama free process. No loss of data as I caught it in time.
I've purchased a handful for desktop machines since the failure and it's all been good. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend.
I cannot speak to the Seagate offering.
(I replace all manner of drives at work. Most recently an overrepresented sample of WD 14TB SAS drives in our Engineered Systems and storage products. A firmware update helps, but some get marked failed and replaced. Had so many go bad that for the systems that would support them, we would install 18TB SAS drives. They made a new part number, destroking 18TB disks to 14TB for the devices that don't support a 14TB disk. Systems that have strict HW compatibility rule that lead them to reject drives that don't show up on the approved hardware list.)
I've always been a fan of WD.
So I would be buying my seagates from newegg, and my toshiba from micro center. Would that help to sway my purchase decision?
The 14TB Exos looks like an early winner on the backblaze stats.
The 14TB Exos looks like an early winner on the backblaze stats.
If you do but then from Newegg, buy retail packaged ones instead of OEM packaged. Newegg-packaged OEM drives are packaged horribly.
