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What drives do you all use for NAS? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The best bit of advice I could give is know what your purpose is.

I needed a storage device, I could have gotten away with 2 external drives and manual labour but instead I got swayed by a QNAP that was a hybrid entertainment centre, virtualisation, docker etc.

I tinker so the amount of times I had to rebuild that NAS means I couldn't reliably use it for storage.

I bought a WD cloud device which I always kept online. That has the drawback of always being available to tinker with.

I just needed a 2 bay NAS and I need it offline.

That's what I have now. The QNAP sits in its box.