New Storage

[BelgianNoise]

I currently have 2x 1TB drives in my QNAP.
really need more storage space, do you guys know anywhere i can get it cheaper then €125 / 4TB.

I always lean to the WD Red as they are not pirces a lot more then some Seagates, is there a brand i still don't know about?

Maybe the Seagates are better?

I mainly use it as a media/file/web server.

 

Didnt really know if i should post it here or in storage devices.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Toshiba makes good stuff, sometimes it's cheap.

[AbsoluteFool]

3 hours ago, BelgianNoise said:

I currently have 2x 1TB drives in my QNAP.
really need more storage space, do you guys know anywhere i can get it cheaper then €125 / 4TB.

I always lean to the WD Red as they are not pirces a lot more then some Seagates, is there a brand i still don't know about?

Maybe the Seagates are better?

I mainly use it as a media/file/web server.

 

Didnt really know if i should post it here or in storage devices.

Ever heard the saying? "You get what you pay for" WD is probably the drives with least failures. If you want that quality you'll have to pay for it.

[Salv8 (sam)]

ensure that you have backed up everything somewhere safe before doing this.

Red's are meant for NAS use (which is what you are doing), if you gave me your data growth (how much data gets added every month) i would be able to calculate what size drives you could get and how long their storage capability would last you

so i'm going to make it up as an example

lets take that 2TB of total storage and start working with it.

your NAS most likely would of setup a RAID 1 for reliability so lets take away half of your drives.

*takes one drive*

now we have a single 1TB hdd, lets say as a hypothetical scenario you filled it up within 1 year.

lets do the math

*gets out paper and pen*

1000 GB ÷ 12 months (1 year) = aprox. 83 GB added every month

thats how much data you would theoretically be adding to the drive every month (not an actual case, you may end up adding way less (maybe 1-2 GB per month) but until i know what your data growth is, this is the best i can do)

lets expand this to 5 years,

1000 GB per year added X 5 years = 5000 GB of data added, you would need a HDD array of 5TB to support that amount of data for that long

*puts away pen and gives paper to you**

 

now again, this is a hypothetical scenario, your use case would certainly be different than this

here are the equations that i used to calculate this in our scenario: (my math may be wrong (not that great with it), someone else correct me if i'm wrong)

amount of data being added every month equation:

Quote

[amount of total storage] ÷ [the time in months that it took to fill up] = [the aprox. amount of data being added every month until the storage was filled]

amount of storage needed to handle that amount of data for a period of time equation:

Quote

[aprox. amount of data being added every year] X [the time in years that you want it to survive until it has been filled] = [aprox. amount of storage in GB that would be needed to store that amount of data for that period of time]

(this does not include if you delete files or you clean your HDD's of data that is no longer needed)

[BelgianNoise]

On 10/27/2018 at 9:28 AM, Salv8 (sam) said:

ensure that you have backed up everything somewhere safe before doing this.

Red's are meant for NAS use (which is what you are doing), if you gave me your data growth (how much data gets added every month) i would be able to calculate what size drives you could get and how long their storage capability would last you

so i'm going to make it up as an example

lets take that 2TB of total storage and start working with it.

your NAS most likely would of setup a RAID 1 for reliability so lets take away half of your drives.

*takes one drive*

now we have a single 1TB hdd, lets say as a hypothetical scenario you filled it up within 1 year.

lets do the math

*gets out paper and pen*

1000 GB ÷ 12 months (1 year) = aprox. 83 GB added every month

thats how much data you would theoretically be adding to the drive every month (not an actual case, you may end up adding way less (maybe 1-2 GB per month) but until i know what your data growth is, this is the best i can do)

lets expand this to 5 years,

1000 GB per year added X 5 years = 5000 GB of data added, you would need a HDD array of 5TB to support that amount of data for that long

*puts away pen and gives paper to you**

 

now again, this is a hypothetical scenario, your use case would certainly be different than this

here are the equations that i used to calculate this in our scenario: (my math may be wrong (not that great with it), someone else correct me if i'm wrong)

amount of data being added every month equation:

amount of storage needed to handle that amount of data for a period of time equation:

(this does not include if you delete files or you clean your HDD's of data that is no longer needed)

Very usefull. I will do the calculations myself.