January 5, 20215 yr I have to purchase at a minimum two additional 8TB drives for my 1st unraid setup. In the past I bought 2x 6TB and 2x 8TB WD Gold drives - mainly because of feedback and reputation as well as my experience with drives from their Black series prior. Looking around now, I find that (on paper) the Toshiba MG drive series pretty appealing. MG Series Specsheet (SAS drives on top, SATA drives are in the bottom) Their price point is also competitive - 8TB: Toshi $187 vs WD Gold $240ish. Toshiba's market share is small compared to WD and Seagate. There is feedback but I maybe some from this community here can chime in - hopefully with positives.
January 5, 20215 yr Toshiba MD/MG series 6TB perform well, I have ~9 disks, HGST 7k6 should be the best. All serve in 3 to 6 yrs, only 2 got bad sector. But now use WD shuck helium disk, 8-12TB, 12TB lowest at $175. But, only high capacity disk wil be helium instead air type.
January 5, 20215 yr Author Thanks, I added the the HGST 7k6 to the selection as well. After WD acquired Hitachi, I wrote off the HGST brand for a while, thinking it's second tier compared to the WD models competing for the same market segments.
January 6, 20215 yr Since nearly a year I'm running TOSHIBA MG07ACA12TE (12 TB) drives in my arrays. Since over 3 years I'm running TOSHIBA HDWE160 (6 TB) as data drives. Never had a problem with Toshibas til now (knock on wood). Had some problems with WDC WD60EFRX (6 TB) in the past. Really long time runners in my arrays are these old ones: HGST HUS724020AL (2 TB). Really good stuff. Edited January 6, 20215 yr by hawihoney
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