Nas are enterprise hard drive choice

Hi mate love watching your videos on YouTube could you help me I have the thecus N5810pro nas I cant make up my mind of the best hard drive to purchase thinking of seagate nas 8tb Seawolf pro are the Seagate enterprise 8tb both are great drives but which one do thing be best in the long term
I need to buy 5 drives its fur home use but I do a lot of videos and a lot of family members using the drive for backups
Thanks in advance for your advice

WD Red.

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seagate ironwolf

also:
seagate exos
wd gold

Thanks

Thank you

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Toshiba N300 if you are looking for cheap 7200RPM NAS drives.

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Reds would be quieter

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+1 on the toshiba

I have that and HGST

then I have some shucked easystores which is the way to go imo.

IronWolf and IronWolf pro drives are something I can recommend. I have been running IronWolf 4TB drives for 2 years come March 5th. They’ve been in an R710 running FreeNAS 24/7 only off when the server was taken offline for cleaning.

The Exos drives are really nice but would likely consume more power and (from when I looked at them) are almost as expensive as IronWolf pro. I would go with IronWolf pro because you get 5 a year warranty and also data recovery for the first 2 years.

Thanks I will go for the pro better deal with 5 year warranty

If I recall correctly Toshiba’s have the lowest fail rate percentage albeit least used in the field. I own both Toshiba and WDC NAS drives.

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