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

[Nickle, Brian]

One of the things I have been hearing about is to stay away from Shingled
media recording (SMR) disk drives.  Apparently they perform poorly in raid
configurations.  Unfortunately not all vendors indicate if the hard drive
is SMR or not.



On Sun., Mar. 7, 2021, 6:46 p.m. Ron Singh, <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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