I’ve been buying seagate ironwolf only drives for my NAS but I’ve been wondering if it’s really worth it given that it’s a small server sitting in a corner and these drives are getting more and more expensive. What are your thoughts? Do you only go with NAS drives or anything really does the trick assuming I have a good backup strategy?

  • DocMadCow@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I run a Synology NAS w/ 4 x 10TB WD REDs. Two are CMR and two are SMR. IMO you can’t go wrong with WD REDs but you can go wrong with only buying a NAS that holds 4 drives :| I do plan to eventually replace this NAS with a 5, 6 or 8 bay NAS but not until Synology includes a 2.5Gbe as default without having to pay for an upgrade. Will also start replacing these 10TB drives with 16TB in the future starting with the SMR drives to increase the size of my storage pool.