URGENT, HAVE TO BUY TODAY. SUGGESTIONS WELCOME.

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Hi,

I was planning on getting some new NAS, I have a my cloud 4t that filled up a bit earlier than I thought. I am not a user with too much specialized need at least for now. 

I would say I am a power space home user that use a lot of space over the disk. (You can guess what's on it)(useless 4k memes of course, what did you think, dirty:)?)

But then I come over to this seagate 4t at 100$ deal albeit only an external hdd. I can hook it up to my modem or my mu cloud nas usb port. I would take it but I do want a more convenient NAS, but it is really cheap and I would probably go for 3 or 4 so I would not need the NAS anymore then. The NAS would cost around 2.5x the price, I would have to chose between them.

 

Though I do not really trust seagate as much as WD as I had a USB port failure and with WD they replaced my transferring cable I lost/for them it is broken, the rep suggested me to put it as broken so I can have this worth 50$ cable because of shipping cost even outside warranty by a year, guess they extended it. What would be the reliability of a seagate drive, a normal one external HDD hooked up to an NAS usb port or medem since they will have to be always on and probably have less mitigation and optimization software than those WD RED or even seagate NAS lineup.

 

I prefer just to finish this thing in one go, and I also have some old HDD of various capacity I am going to combine with the new one from old computers or just those who have transverses time and space with me HDD's. 

 

SO WHAT DO YOU RECKON? STICK WITH NAS OR GO WITH THE E-HDD? THE THING IS REALLY RELIABILITY OF SEAGATE AND HAVE TO ALWAYS LET THEM ON RUNNING. NEED SUGGESTIONS ASAP.

[Scotty1928]

For reliability of HDD the backblaze report is the go-to source on the web: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019/

 

if you really are a power user (which i doubt), a 'real' NAS is a better solution than those single-drive non-expandable crap they sell. I use two synology devices (216+ offsite and 918+ with 517 expansion unit onsite) with a total of 140TB raw capacity. I had only ever one warranty case with my WD REDs, which i use exclusively, and it didn't even fail.

[We Didnt_t start_the_fire]

Hmmm, ok thanks. I suppose for home user I am the power kind. Nothing really professional to use it for for now. Btw I did try backblaze but they are only an recovery service, wonder if their a flat price service like them for storage without going to setup a server/cloud server and the cost being reasonable, not for enterprise and thus expended capability as well as price. 

 

As for seagate, the drive them-self is actually ok, I had two usb port failure/connection failure thought. 

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I guess I will go with the NAS, although I will run a dual bay raid 0 or 1, so not really using mirror or recover function. I am testing my my current single NAS the ability to add usb based ehdd. Any suggestions? I am considering My cloud EX2 from WD. And WD red. For their simple to use and pretty looking interface and decent performance. EX4 a bit overkill and the bay itself look ugly. Recommendations welcome. @Scotty1928

[Scotty1928]

I suggested Backblazes quarterly report of drive failures to see which hard drives are best, not the service they provide.

 

idk what you're doing with it. if it's just for file storage you can go with pretty much everything. synology has the added bonus of a wide variety of packages to install, like Plex, the Download Station etc. You are also able to manage it all via Web Interface, on some you can install virtual machines etc.

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Yes, I did that. jumped subject there maybe. Have to test out everything then. Alright. Thnx.