joelrfernandes Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Hello all, As mentioned before, I'm purchasing one of these Supermicro storage server and originally it was supposed to come with a couple of two 10TB SAS drives, unfortunately that's not the case anymore and I'm not looking into getting the drives separately. I know that SAS is specifically for server/enterprise use, however, I've been reading that these Seagate Ironwolf drives are highly recommended for a storage server, but these are SATA interface. What is the recommendation here? The main purpose of my server is for media storage (movies, tv shows and pictures), as well personal backups. These are the drives I'm currently considering: Seagate 10TB SAS (ST10000NM0096) Seagate IronWolf 10TB NAS SATA TIA Quote Link to comment
whipdancer Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 I'm running 70tb of sata drives, none of which are enterprise or designed for storage or similar, on which I store movies, tv shows, pictures, videos, etc. In the approximate 9 years I've been running unraid, I've had 2 drives actually fail and a handful that started "acting funny" that I replaced as a cautionary step. My drives have figuratively run the gamut of the "consumer" spectrum. I think HGST, WD, Seagate, Toshiba, Hitachi, Samsung about covers the brands, with sizes ranging from 1tb to 8tb. It seems that buying whatever drives you are comfortable with should be just fine. My choices always fall toward the value end of the $/TB spectrum.https://www.backblaze.com/blog/enterprise-drive-reliability/https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive-q4-2014/ 1 Quote Link to comment
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