NAS HDDS

[Rad Design]

Looking for good deals on NAS HDDs. Building Un-raid NAS for youtubers. Would like to start out with 100tb and leave room for more. I have a case for 10 drives. Was looking at maybe 20tb or 22tb drives. Not a newbie at the NAS, but drives are so expensive.

 

First time posting. Any real advice would be very appreciated. Big fan for the channel

[tkitch]

20+ TB Drives are pricey.  Nothing you can do about that.

 

Keep an eye on Slickdeals and see if there are any good sales.

[NobleGamer]

Yes, giant drives are not cheap.

 

In general, get a NAS drive that is CMR and not SMR because SMR random reads/writes are the worst.

 

My own personal anecdotes on specific NASs:

 

I've been using a Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB for at least a year that I've been happy with, and it has a diagnostic mode I can invoke on a schedule from my Synology NAS.

 

Heres my review of the Western Digital Red 3 TB: After 60000 hours powered on (6.9 years, nice) and accidentally dropping it from 8 feet high while in a MyCloud enclosure, it still works fine! The drive might have extra vibration that I don't remember before, but I've done short & long SMART tests and a 10 hour surface test with zero bad sectors. I now use this for offline storage.

It does not have great read/write speeds compared to other HDDs, though still capable of 100+ MBps so sequential reading and writing is often not going to be a bottleneck when using it in a NAS with a typical 1 gbps wired connection.

Make sure to get a CMR drive (Red Plus), not SMR if you don't want even worse random read/write performance. This was a CMR drive before WD made all "Red" SMR and "Red Plus" became CMR only.