What brand of NAS hard disk? No SSD's please...

[duck__dodgers]

Decades ago now (lol), Toshiba was head and shoulders the best.

IMO now, whatever top-tier brand (WD Segate) is on sale with two caveats: don't buy anything that advertises itself as "green" "energy efficient" (savings not worth the complexity, constant on-off cycling, potential failures);
don't buy the highest capacity drive, go for the 2nd highest---get more NAS bays if you have to.

YMMV. everyone has different quirks.

 

[jcy]

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.

do you even know if your decade old NAS supports 14TB drives? you never bothered to mention what model it is

 

[road_rascal]

When I added a second drive to my Reolink NVR a few months ago I bought a WD Purple 4TB. Seems to be working fine.

 

[SubieRubyRoo]

If you do but then from Newegg, buy retail packaged ones instead of OEM packaged. Newegg-packaged OEM drives are packaged horribly.

You mean an anti-static bagged bare drive tossed into an otherwise empty shoebox isn’t sufficient to transport a precise electronic device?

 

[SumGuy]

Use your drives in mirror mode (raid 1) and buy / install them in pairs. You won't then need to be concerned about buying the statistically most reliable make/model.

 

[Touring5]

You mean an anti-static bagged bare drive tossed into an otherwise empty shoebox isn’t sufficient to transport a precise electronic device?

LOL. I stopped buy drives from Newegg for just this reason. Usually Amazon will have the same product for the same price.

To the OP's question, I've had reliable use with Seagate Iron Wolf drives.

 

[Rob_Roy]

I have been running my 2x seagate 4TB drives since 2014. Its time to retire them and get larger. Seagate or WD or Toshiba?

WD factory refurbished drives have been great for me.

 

[Fordiesel69]

do you even know if your decade old NAS supports 14TB drives? you never bothered to mention what model it is

It will be a Lenovo Tower Server ST250. Xeon E2136, idles at 18W, as opposed to the ancient relic currently in place idles at 40w. It supports all SAS drives or all SATA drives. You cannot mix and match SAS/SATA on the same controller.

 

[DougR]

This is a follow up to my previous post in this thread. I purchased two 8 TB WD Red Plus drives which spin at 5800 RPM. I wanted quiet over performance. I don't hear the drives spinning, but I do hear occasional actuation. Operating temperature ranges from 28-31 C with one rear case fan providing cooling at minimum speed which I don't hear. My system is a 4th gen Core i7-4770 running TrueNAS Scale. CPU power draw at idle is 10-15 watts. I use it for automated backups of 5 PCs and file transfers. This is my first NAS and I'm happy with it.

 

[jcy]

When I added a second drive to my Reolink NVR a few months ago I bought a WD Purple 4TB. Seems to be working fine.

FWIW, there is a whitelist for hard drives, that 4TB model is not on it. The 3TB purple is on there, but only one 4TB WD model is endorsed

https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-u...3-How-to-Choose-HDDs-for-your-Reolink-Device/

 

[hemioiler]

Use your drives in mirror mode (raid 1) and buy / install them in pairs. You won't then need to be concerned about buying the statistically most reliable make/model.

That's my approach too, head in the sand

Seriously though, that's my setup though I use ZFS on linux and not Raid. I also bought two different manufacturer drives, and each pair has one of the one and one of the other, so that if one manufacturer has a bad run and they both die quite soon to each other, at least the other half of each pair is still alive.

Lately I've been thinking about switching to RaidZ even though it can be a little slower, as it's a better use of disk space and I don't have any really need for speed in my media server, it's more than fast enough for whatever I'm doing with it.

 

[Lawnman23]

I have had 2x WD Red Pro 4TB drives running RAID1 in my NAS for the last two years with no issues.

 

[road_rascal]

FWIW, there is a whitelist for hard drives, that 4TB model is not on it. The 3TB purple is on there, but only one 4TB WD model is endorsed

https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-u...3-How-to-Choose-HDDs-for-your-Reolink-Device/

The only difference I see is the cache. I posted that question a while back and those on the Reolink forum says it's fine.