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

[CrankyOldBugger]

I used to be a WD fan, but lately I've had better luck with Seagate..
honestly, it's a model-by-model thing.

Check out the Backblaze report.  They keep track of their drives failure
rates and publish it yearly:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/



On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 20:16, William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> From my readings,
>
>    - WD Red is SMR, but
>    - WD Red Plus and Red Pro are CMR.
>
> --William
> On 3/7/21 7:44 PM, Nickle, Brian wrote:
>
> 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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