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!
I’m using four 8TB IronWolf Pro drives in the Intel-based QNAP used for Plex and general fileshares.
I’m using four 14TB IronWolf Pro drives (with two Samsung 2TB NVMe SSDs for cache) in the dedicated iSCSI ARM-based QNAP.
They’ve been great drives.
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 use whatever is cheapest at the time of buying. I just make sure they’re not SMR.
WD blue drives I believe, got them a couple years ago on sale… Some were from enclosures etc
I’ve got 10 12tb Seagate EXOS drives in operation right now and have also run small capacity (2-4tb) WD Red and blue and Seagate Barracuda drives. For ssds I run Samsung 870 evos.
