Looking for NAS hard drive recommendations if anyone has any pertinent experience or information.
One of my WD "Red" 6TB NAS drives died in the night. Only had like 44,000 power-on-hours so still a baby. It was a backup drive so half my data sits unprotected. Kind of a surprise as it showed no errors and was aged enough to be "over-the-hump" of most failures. I have a couple WD Black Enterprise drives that have 70,000+ hours on them.
My habit is to buy a replacement that exceeds the newest drive currently in use so I am always expanding. This also allows me to position the new drive as the primary storage device and use the older drive(s) as backup. So I am going to buy 10TB (the size of my current primary drive) or larger or two that total that size.
For a decade or so I have been strictly a WD user (blacks, then reds when they came out) but I am open to other as times have changed. Currently:
10 TB WD "Red Pro" - primary storage - 21,000 hrs (2TB free)
6 TB WD "Red" = backup #2 - 34,000 hrs.
The boot device is a small SSD.
In the past I sequenced the drives so backup always matched primary and usually had 4 drives. Last time I needed more capacity I went with the single 10TB drive because is it was cheaper by far than 2 6TB drives. Since then, I had gotten away from RAID configurations so each drive stands alone. I like that arrangement because I don't have to spend time restoring a RAID on what's basically just a storage device.
So I'm thinking either a single drive again unless I can find a sweet deal on 2 6TB or larger drives. I'd like to go to add 12TB although more would be OK.
I guess one problem is matching storage to backup. I have 16TB total now and still 2TB free on the primary so I don;t really need to add space. It's really about placing the dollars wisely. If I buy the 12TB drive I have a fairly large mismatch: 12TB storage but 16TB backup.
I'm looking at the WD "Ironwolf" and EXOS drives. My default will be Ironwolf as the 5 year warranty tells my they are backing up their drives vs EXOS 3 year.
Thoughts?
One of my WD "Red" 6TB NAS drives died in the night. Only had like 44,000 power-on-hours so still a baby. It was a backup drive so half my data sits unprotected. Kind of a surprise as it showed no errors and was aged enough to be "over-the-hump" of most failures. I have a couple WD Black Enterprise drives that have 70,000+ hours on them.
My habit is to buy a replacement that exceeds the newest drive currently in use so I am always expanding. This also allows me to position the new drive as the primary storage device and use the older drive(s) as backup. So I am going to buy 10TB (the size of my current primary drive) or larger or two that total that size.
For a decade or so I have been strictly a WD user (blacks, then reds when they came out) but I am open to other as times have changed. Currently:
10 TB WD "Red Pro" - primary storage - 21,000 hrs (2TB free)
6 TB WD "Red" = backup #2 - 34,000 hrs.
The boot device is a small SSD.
In the past I sequenced the drives so backup always matched primary and usually had 4 drives. Last time I needed more capacity I went with the single 10TB drive because is it was cheaper by far than 2 6TB drives. Since then, I had gotten away from RAID configurations so each drive stands alone. I like that arrangement because I don't have to spend time restoring a RAID on what's basically just a storage device.
So I'm thinking either a single drive again unless I can find a sweet deal on 2 6TB or larger drives. I'd like to go to add 12TB although more would be OK.
I guess one problem is matching storage to backup. I have 16TB total now and still 2TB free on the primary so I don;t really need to add space. It's really about placing the dollars wisely. If I buy the 12TB drive I have a fairly large mismatch: 12TB storage but 16TB backup.
I'm looking at the WD "Ironwolf" and EXOS drives. My default will be Ironwolf as the 5 year warranty tells my they are backing up their drives vs EXOS 3 year.
Thoughts?
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