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Best Mass Storage Data Drives

amh0187
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Hi All

 

Sorry i've done alot of searching in regards to this and cannot seem to find a definitive answer or a clear defined shortlist. I'm looking for some nice large storage drives from my home data and media server running windows server 2012.

 

all in ill be looking for around 5-8TB of usable storage with a data redundancy. so possibly in total 10-16TB of drives when my data redundancy is built in. 

 

Many Thanks in advance for any suggestions of drives

 

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Hi All

 

Sorry i've done alot of searching in regards to this and cannot seem to find a definitive answer or a clear defined shortlist. I'm looking for some nice large storage drives from my home data and media server running windows server 2012.

 

all in ill be looking for around 5-8TB of usable storage with a data redundancy. so possibly in total 10-16TB of drives when my data redundancy is built in. 

 

Many Thanks in advance for any suggestions of drives

 

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Probably the WD Red or the Seagate NAS drives. They are rated for 24/7 and in RAID configurations. Don't buy WD Blacks/Greens or Seagate Desktop/Barracuda, they aren't safe to run in RAID.

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Western Digital Reds or black

 

Black is a waste of money for storage. Why do you keep recommending it everywhere?

 

@OP: WD Reds or Seagate NAS should be the best choice for your setup.

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Hi there @amh0187!

 

Since you're looking for a server drives I would suggest WD Red as well. 

 

They are designed for multi-drive RAID use and the vibrations and stress that comes with a RAID array, have low operating temperatures and also have RAID specific built-in features (like TLER – helps the drive recover faster in case of read/write error and the drive doesn’t drop off the RAID). 

 

Here's a link if you want to take a look:

 


 

Hope this helps.

 

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