[Leica] Hard drive advice?

[Brian Reid]

I never buy the largest size available. I buy NAS certified 7200RPM.  I always buy on sale, which basically means last year’s model. I prefer Seagate and WD. I always replace all of the disks in a NAS (one at a time) when the second drive fails. I buy one more than the NAS holds, so I have a spare. I check SMART data about once a month. If I were buying now I would look first at 12TB Seagate. 

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> On Oct 13, 2021, at 6:22 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> I just bought a 2 slot NAS.  I am putting on the 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drives.      ( NAS is a Synology).
> 
> The WD can be a bit cheaper.  Some prefer WD, some prefer Seagate.
> 
> There was a big sale on 14TB drives recently,   Sold for $219 each.  They are built to last a bit longer, running 24/7.  Seagate Ironwolf and WD Red are the tywo commonly seen drives.   But HGST and Hitachi and Samsung also make NAS Drives.
> 
> The big issue is to get the NAS qualified drives.  Synology provides a list of "certified" drives.  I bet Drobo does as well.
> 
> Thanksgiving is around the corner, and that is the time to buy HDD.  They go on sale.
> 
> Buy whatever can fit in the box that is at the sweet spot of $$$ per TB.  $25 is the magic "normal" price per TB.  ( 10TB = $250, 16TB = $400)
> 
> It has been $25/TB for over a year.....
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> BMWRed735i at gmail.com
> 
>> On 10/13/2021 2:52 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
>> For the computer literati on the list.  I suffered a hard drive failure on
>> my 5 slot Drobo.  Not a problem and have swapped in a replacement drive.  I
>> did change settings to two drive failure mode with a corresponding decrease
>> in capacity.
>> 
>> My question is what are the better 3.5 inch large capacity drives?  I am
>> currently using 6tb red wolf drives and am contemplating going to 14tb
>> drives if they have similar reliability probabilities.
>> 
>> Advice and suggestions happily received.
> 
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