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What drives do you all use for NAS? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by slashAneesh@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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With black Friday sales coming up, I'm hoping to start building a NAS for my home. I have the server and stuff, but wondering which drives to get for storage.

From everything I've looked at, seems like Seagate Ironwolf and WD Red seem to be highly recommended. I'm leaning towards the Ironwolf 8TB drives right now. These are retailing for $160+tax right now, which I feel is a pretty good price to get these

However, I'm wondering if any of you experienced folks have any other suggestions for me.

Thanks!

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[–] silvarium@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If you're gonna build for redundancy, avoid WD Red. They use SMR platters and it doesn't play nice with RAID configs. You'd have to get a WD red plus or red pro to get a CMR drive which actually works in a RAID array. You don't have to worry about accidentally getting an SMR drive with ironwolf though since that whole section is Seagate's branding only uses CMR.