Help Choosing drives

[angus_pa]

I am Looking at doing raid 1 for personal storage using WD red 2 or 3 TB drives is there a performance difference between them as there is little price difference

 

 

Also want a 4 TB drive for mass storage and look at Seagate Barracuda 4TB or Hitachi HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB or any other suggestions                                           

[TheMcSame]

Hitachi HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB                                

^^^^^^^

 

Rule of thumb: If you can get Hitachi, get Hitachi.

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi there @angus_pa!

 

There isn't a big difference in the transfer rate between the two Red drives - it's ~147 MB/s according to the spec sheet.

 

As for a 4TB storage HDD, I would suggest WD Green, which is designed for such purpose, is energy efficient, cool and quiet operational. Here's a link if you want to check it out:

 

http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=yKxd8T

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers!