diewurst Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment
Vr2Io Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment
diewurst Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment
hawihoney Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 (edited) 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, 2021 by hawihoney Quote Link to comment
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