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Oarsomeness
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I would go for WD red drives, they are excellent drives

 

As for a NAS you could go prebuilt or build one yourself.

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i'm pretty sure that theres more difference between having good luck with a drive, and having bad luck with one, than there is between brands at this point.

 

it comes down to features you like, or a brand you're used to.

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Hi there @Oarsomeness!

 

I would suggest to go with WD Red drives because they are designed for NAS environment in particular.

 

Basically, NAS drives are optimised to use less power, cause less vibration and have AAM (which stands for Automatic Acoustic Management and with it you can set priority to quiet seeks or faster seeks but more noise) set to high levels, which multiplies rotational latency. Also, NAS drives Error recovery control/TLER. A desktop drive will try, try and try again to get your data back if a sector's not reading properly. This will result in timeouts, etc. A NAS drive will give up early and report an error, so the array controller can get the data from another disk in the array.

 

Hope this helps.

 

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