Consumer Drives 24/7 NAS or 5900RPM

[LienusLateTips]

I'm probably going to be building a NAS soon. My current plans is to have 2 2TB drives in RAID 1, as I'll just be putting family photos, etc on it, perhaps YT stuff.

 

Would it be OK to use consumer desktop drives? Unless I spend a ton of money on the drives, all the 24/7 drives here sold are 5900RPM at the most, while the desktop drives are 7200RPM.

 

Would the 5900RPM be noticeable, when I'm transferring files?

[ARikozuM]

Rotation speed has had no bearing (or very little) since about 2015 thanks to platter densities getting to the point where your biggest setbacks are actuation time and non-independent read/write heads [(for drives with multiple platters)]. 

 

Edit: I would strongly recommend going with NAS drives if you're doing RAID 1/5/6. If you're just using a hot-swap or plug-n-play backup, just use a consumer drive that's reliable. 

[LienusLateTips]

2 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Rotation speed has had no bearing (or very little) since about 2015 thanks to platter densities getting to the point where your biggest setbacks are actuation time and non-independent read/write heads. 

 

Edit: I would strongly recommend going with NAS drives if you're doing RAID 1/5/6. If you're just using a hot-swap or plug-n-play backup, just use a consumer drive that's reliable. 

I'll probably put these in a front bay and take them out... quite often.

 

What's a good case with a ton of 5.25" bays?

[ARikozuM]

6 minutes ago, JDE said:

I'll probably put these in a front bay and take them out... quite often.

 

What's a good case with a ton of 5.25" bays?

You can get an NZXT S220 (Discontinued as far as I'm aware) or any case with two 5.25" bays for triple 3.5" hot-swap. I just use a single hot-swap for dailies while the server keeps the weeklies, monthlies, and quarterlies. 

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/case/#xcx=0&G=6,12&sort=-ext525&page=1

[NelizMastr]

2 hours ago, JDE said:

Would the 5900RPM be noticeable, when I'm transferring files?

No. Most modern drives can do roughly 150MB/s, slower drives around the 100-120MB/s mark. Basically, they can all saturate the main bottleneck: the gigabit ethernet connection. If you're still on 10/100 ethernet, don't even consider a NAS until you upgrade to CAT5e or CAT6 cables and add gigabit controllers to PCs that need them.

[leadeater]

1 hour ago, JDE said:

Would it be OK to use consumer desktop drives? Unless I spend a ton of money on the drives, all the 24/7 drives here sold are 5900RPM at the most, while the desktop drives are 7200RPM.

 

Would the 5900RPM be noticeable, when I'm transferring files?

A lot of NAS rated drives are 5900 RPM for reliability, the larger cache and multiple disks makes up for the very slight performance difference.

[Jarsky]

I suspect you'll be going software raid for such a small setup, so consumer drives are fine. NAS drives typically implement TLER and ECR, but also designed to take vibration for multiple drives. In saying that though, ive happily run 8 WD Green's in a software RAID for over 5 years (45k hrs) with over 1GB/s transfer speeds in sequential. 

 

Spindle speed wont make any difference at all for your usage since it seems you'll be using it as write little, read often with smaller files. 

You could just use some Barracuda's or Green's