[kwlug-disc] Which NAS harddisk? -- Seagate or Western Digital

[Ron Singh]

Live by the ABS rule -- A)nything B)ut S)eagate. WD's failure rate is much
better than Seagates. HGST fails the least.
These days, WD owns the HGST HDD lines, renamed as WD Red Pro.

I run an 8-drive QNAP NAS box with 8 pcs of 4TB HGST drives, slow ones,
5200-ish RPM, SAF, but low-power. I never let them spin down and have not
had a failure since they have been in use since 2013.

Today's 4TB 7200RPM WD RED PRO stuff:
https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd#WD4003FFBX

We have tons of these 4TB, 8TB and 10TB in service, never had one go bad in
Raid5/Raid6/Raid50 in QNAP and Synology NAS boxes.

Thanks,

Ron S.



On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 6:31 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2 of my harddisks are failing, so I need to buy something fairly soon.
> Has Seagate improved their quality?  Or, should I go with Western Digital
> as I usually do?
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