G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 When buying nas hdd or hdd in general, do you purchase them all from one place, different stores all at once, different stores at different times or same store at different times? On a lot of forums people are saying they buy a couple from one place and another other from another place and then 4+ months later do it again for how ever many drives they need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Geoff Galley Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I purchase all my HDD and/or SSD from the one company and of the one type and style. I run WD red's in my NAS and in my pc's as a rotating drive for video editing.. for my pc's opperating system and a complete mirror of the opperating in each pc I use Kingston SSD'd I did use OCZ but I had problems with them being slow once they got close to their capacity.. I am looking at changing them to Kingston Hyper X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 Geoff Galley I have a single 2tb red in my Ubuntu server,before I found out it was a bad idea. For the new nas I'm looking at hgst 3tb and 3tb reds. Mainly comes down to price so far from reviews. I have Samsung 840 in a laptop,850 as os drive on my new PC and a newegg mushkin only ssd for data just because. I also have a couple if 16,32 and 64 GB Samsung ssd but they were pulled from chrome books. Where do you get your drives from? I've gone through newegg and amazon but only one drive at a time.I'm curious on their multi drive packing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Akira Yamanita Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Adam EL-Idrissi Considering that the main difference between a "NAS drive" like the Red series and a desktop drive is the way they handle errors, they're only slightly worse in a non-redundant drive failure situation, which is already bad. The server drives we get at work are always in batches. For home, I just buy whatever I need, when I need it. If you have dynamically expandable storage, whether that's a Drobo or something custom on ZFS or similar and the price-space ratio is important to you, I think that that approach works best. You'll probably save money in the long run and have fewer small drives lying around. Of course, that would depend greatly on your immediate needs. Based on the BackBlaze data, the 3 TB HGSTs are far more reliable than the 3 TB Reds. (That said, my nearly two year old 3 TB Red in mixed storage is still working just fine.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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