With black Friday sales coming up, I’m hoping to start building a NAS for my home. I have the server and stuff, but wondering which drives to get for storage.

From everything I’ve looked at, seems like Seagate Ironwolf and WD Red seem to be highly recommended. I’m leaning towards the Ironwolf 8TB drives right now. These are retailing for $160+tax right now, which I feel is a pretty good price to get these

However, I’m wondering if any of you experienced folks have any other suggestions for me.

Thanks!

  • 18zips@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have 2 1tb ssd’s for all my vm’s and stuff.

    And then I’m using a single 8TB barracuda for movies and media. It’s surprisingly more space than you think, and I’m just in the habit of deleting stuff after I’m done with it.

    Went with the barracuda cuz I didn’t plan on using raid and figured it’d be quieter than the ironwolf.