Medwynd Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 Browsed through the various threads and been hard to nail down where I want my unraid system to go from here. I built the system about 5 years ago with 6 3tb WD reds (WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0). I upgraded my parity drive and one of the storage drives to 4TB HGST (HDN724040ALE640) because I got a deal on the pair. I'm pretty full on storage with about 1.5TB still free and with the holidays here I am looking for some ideas on what to keep an eye out for. All of my drives have held up remarkably, granted they dont get a ton of use, just the occasional movie and tv show viewing. My motherboard is a Supermicro - X10SL7-F and according to Supermicros site it should be able to use 8TB drives, which would be a nice jump in space even if I only get a handful of them. The obvious choices I think are Seagate IronWolf 8TB or 10 TB NAS drives or more WD Reds which have treated me right so far. The IronWolf has a higher speed which would be nice compared to a similarly priced WD 8TB at 5400 RPM. Are there any other factors I am overlooking besides just looking for a good $/TB. reliability, and speed? Any other brands that I may not be thinking of? Thanks for any advice. Quote Link to comment
Medwynd Posted October 13, 2020 Author Share Posted October 13, 2020 Actually got lucky and decided to go with 3 x WD EasyStore 12TB Externals with WDBAMA0120HBK-NESN inside. These are supposed to be easy to shuck and have a power button which makes them nice to reuse when I repurpose an older drive. Got them for 175$ each, still thinking I should have went for more but I have a new pc build this Christmas I'm working on Quote Link to comment
planetwilson Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 How did you work out which ones are good for shucking? Anything to look for? Quote Link to comment
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