NAS Hard Drives - Before You Buy

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- When choosing your first NAS device, as important as it seems to get the right network attached storage device, even more important is making sure you get the right hard drive or SSD Media to store your files on. Technically any hard drive (HDD) these days can be installed inside a network attached storage device. On the one hand, this is a good thing for those that like choice, but it is also a bloody awful thing for the indecisive or those that just want to know what the best hard drive to buy is right now. In order to use any hard drive in your NAS, you will need to make sure it is the following:
SATA connectivity (so some Enterprise drives will also support SAS)
At least 5400rpm or higher otherwise you there will be lag during access which only gets worse, the more drives you add.
at least 120GB and above in capacity, as often applications and NAS operating systems, plus updates, will be well over 50-80GB alone over the years
At least 64MB cache
Yep..that just above covers it!
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[@mikeeast8322]

The best NAS content on the web. You have helped me so many times. I am on my 3rd NAS thanks to you and it's running like a top. Thank you sir!

[@stoffls]

I am so glad I found your channel. I am thinking about buying a NAS for home use - and with your tips I can make a much better decision. And you are really able to explain the topics well (I am a Microsoft server engineer, so the concepts are not completely new to me - only regarding the home use vs. the enterprise environment I am working with).

[@timothyoconnor9013]

As always, a brilliant video. Thank you again. I'm learning so much.

[@williamyf]

One trick that could be used is to use differnt types of drives for differnt uses in groups, and use only those drives when defining the storage pools. Either in different slots on the chasis, or, if your NAS supports multiple external bays, in diferent storage bays. Using a DS1515+ (my NAS) as an example: Slots 1 and 2 are for SSDs, maybe in Write Cache, or read cache for two partitions. Slots 3~5 have NAS drives (say Toshiba N300) in RAID5 for VMs and Speed/Latency sensitive stuff. Then, on the first DX517: A bunch of surveillance drives Say, Toshiba S300 In RAID 6 And finally, on the second DX517, A bunch of normal Hard Drives in RAID 5 or 6 for media and non Speed/Latency sensitive stuff. Same Idea with, say, a 12 bay NAS. Just make sure that, when you create your storage pools, you select only drives of the same type.

[@thngzys]

It's almost as if he's reading my mind. Need to move out of Google Photos? Here's a video. Wondering what disk to choose? Here you go!

[@MattCLind]

Cant thank you enough for your videos. I’ve probably watched 8hours of your videos the past week... particularly the QuMagie vs Moments. I probably changed my mind back and forth 20X

[@studentoo]

Which one have you chosen finaly? ;)

[@ops70]

Wonderful and insightful hints! Thanks!

[@Mike0193Azul]

Thanks so much for this in-depth lecture on nas drives and the pros and cons that are relative to reach model and size! 🔥

[@Isaacmuribeca1]

You know everything about NAS, it’s insane, hats off 👏🏼

[@kendavis8557]

Enjoy your videos as I am just getting started in setting up a NAS. My goal is to use it primarily as media storage (apx 2,000 dvd's) and some photos and other family videos. I just purchased a Synology DS920+ primarily because I wanted a minimum of 4 bays, but also wanted the ability to add expansion if I later need. Now comes time for drives. I have looked initially at getting 4x4TB's but then though about starting out with 2x8TB's, now after you video and learning a bit more about RAID, I am back to thinking starting out with 3 and then maybe a fourth 4TB. What are your recommendations as I am just learning this stuff and what to have my immediate needs of storage and backup, but also the room for expansion later if needed?

[@852foodie]

Very good tips! Thank you for sharing!

[@TechDogeth]

Great content, suggestion for future videos. Please add a written overlay for the math sections. E.g. The Capacity section with explanations of drives & config vs storage, "seeing" the math written out side by side could help. I can tell I was not the only one since the analytics say a lot of people re-winded back and forth there, which can get confusing.

[@Stefan_G_BC]

Hi, good video as always! Do you have another video which refers to the different power consumption of Hard Drives? I am wondering whether there is a general rule or whether it is very brand and model specific.

[@mattcero1]

Fantastic video! What are your thoughts on adding a large drive in my Dell Server and sharing that over the network? I know there's no redundancy but how would you compare that solution with a far more expensive dedicated NAS? The Dell is running all the time anyway for security so this solution would not add, really, to my power bill. Thank you.

[@montenague]

Seriously great video man.

[@Rabixter]

Very informative. Thanks for the useful video.

[@Ed17151]

Very nice explanation, thanks!

[@IMBlakeley]

Ran a cheap WD blue for 5 years in an Old ReadyNAS, it did eventually totally fail with no warning but that's what backups are for.

[@mikehinh]

This is so helpful. Thank you!

[@moikehunt8928]

Very helpful video, thanks for sharing

[@phatpat63]

Thanks for sharing the breakdown.

[@graymanmedia]

Hello @NASCompares, I found the video informative. Though, I have a question. I have Three 4TB Barracuda HHD drive that I will be using as a Internal Access Storage Drive in a 4 Bay DAS. I also want to get Four 2TB WD Red NAS for my personal editing PC. Using it to store edited videos and transfer it to my DAS. Eventually getting a proper NAS w/4 or 6 Bays. Then get 4 or 6 4TB Ironwolf or WB Reds Drives every 2 month as I max out the space on each drive. Turning that into a external access storage archive. Just need to know what you think about the set up? What RAID Configuration should work for each set up? Should HHDs themselves be more or less TBs?

[@sgtserenityx]

Great video a lot of good info So I think I understand I do not need even a 1 TB drive as My last raid 0 was 2 250gb WD’s and it was super fast with never once a issue ever . I never even put dent in the space size as I only use them as gamer . Today my needs are extra storage for my Nvidia Shield so I can even get a cheaper SSD 2 240gb drive would be over kill . This would save me money !

[@Liquid-yj1ok]

Solid value in this video. Thanks.

[@nascompares]

Thanks buddy!

[@televisi]

Thanks for the suggestion of buying less disk space with more disks to have the same equal space but less money!

[@dskhajanchi]

First Of All I would like to say THANK YOU for providing us very good knowledge about NAS & NAS Hard Drive and I would like to inform you that I am going to buy Synology DS720+ NAS and even going to buy Seagate ironwolf NAS Hard drive of 5400 RPM so, is it good Hardrive for this NAS? Please suggest me. Thank you

[@fooltimedaddy]

Arguably my fav Nas youtuber

[@HumanityHourI]

Great video! The perfect ending would be a summary that links the theory covered in video to the real world. Something like "These brands/product lines are designed for NAS: , these for surveillance: , these for desktop: ..., and these for enterprise/server environment:

[@nascompares]

Fair point! Only thing I can really say to defend myself is that it would make the video a good degree longer (and it's already quite too long for some viewers). However, I have covered ranges from most users. Here are some good examples. The NASCompares NAS Hard Drive Guide - nascompares.com/2021/02/16/best-hard-drives-for-nas-get-it-right-first-time-2021-edition/ The WD Hard Drive buyers Guide - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnSzpWydj7ykpaM Seagate Hard Drive Guide - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fICmkpxpZ9OHars

[@HumanityHourI]

@@nascompares yep, that's exactly what I'm watching through right now :) Keep up the good work!

[@joelevans6387]

The type of drives Also depends heavily on the NAS OS and more specifically the file system as that plays a part of his planning section towards the end about the purpose of the NAS. There are Drives on a syn or a qnap I wouldn’t use on a TrueNAS core.

[@sarhtaq]

CMR vs SMR drives can often be quite important as well, especially when you need to write large files and move them frequently.

[@sto2779]

not "quite" important... more like "very" important, nobody wants to wait 9 days or more for a failed drive to rebuild using SMR drives...

[@RN1441]

@@sto2779 Especially since the data is at risk of something going wrong during that whole window, and the error rate is per bit written at the low level so all that extra shingle shuffling ramps up the odds of an unrecoverable error.

[@zagan1]

You want the same type of drives

[@kazielbonn]

So CMR for large files?

[@mdd1963]

SMR drives just plain suck..............; end of discussion! :)

[@exsosus5002]

Yes, some of the pro drives, are so loud, they make a real real noise racket. I began using 5400RPM for a while only, as its whisper quiet and one can sleep in the same room as the NAS then. Yes, less performance, noticable for movies and database storage? Nope. Perfect for my configuration.

[@chrish6178]

Not really much to say here. You and your knowledge is jus awesome. Thank you.

[@Morpheus-pt3wq]

The reason, why there are drives specified for different use is binning. It would be costly for the manufacturer to make each segment as standalone. Just like chips, not all drives are created equal. When a drive is specified for 5400rpm, it only means it´s unable to meet specs required for 7200rpm drive. Worst HDDs end up in external boxes, worst CMR HDDs end up as surveillance disks or compute units (if such line still exists). So, basically, a WD Purple is a drive, that couldn´t made it into WD Red line and WD Red (RED Plus currently) line couldn´t made it into WD Red Pro line, which couldn´t made it into WD Gold line, etc. You can use ANY drive in your PC - you can also use ANY drive in your NAS - that depends entirely on you. Telling people, that you have to pick a HDD according to your use is just a fall under manufacturer´s manipulation. Also check the datasheets, Seagate specifies all compute Barracuda drives to be used max 8 hours in bussiness days. Made me wonder about the drive internal quality, when i read it. I´m using a NAS-specified drive in PC, do you think it does not work? I´m getting sick of all SMR drives, that silently replaced all cheap compute drives. Yes, Seagate did this as well, a lot sooner, than WD SMR scandal happened. Eventually, every HDD will fail - it´s inevitable. If HDD fails within few days of purchase or arrives DOA, it does not mean it´s a bad quality drive, just a bad luck. Important thing here is to have backups, or even backups of backups.

[@nexaentertainment2764]

In order for that to be true, HDD manufacturers would have to be putting out *huge* amounts of defective or subpar drives. I doubt that's the case. Yes binning happens, but there's no way that every 2nd or 3rd tier drive is a binned drive, that would basically mean their manufacturing process is terrible. Not just that but these lower tier drives still (usually) come with pretty decent warranties. Like I said, it definitely happens, but I doubt that every purple drive is a failed red, every red a failed pro, etc etc. They simply make too many for that to make sense.

[@stpirate89]

Really useful video, thanks!

[@Belka50]

great information, thank you!

[@dnoodspodu1159]

All in all for home user / very small business that want to have a backup drive that is both as fast as possible and as large as possible - would it not be recommended to buy something like 14-16 TB NAS HDD instead of paying a couple of times more for the same size SSD or same size SATA HDD? Because generally [in theory] NAS drives are 100% faster that SATA ones. With the caveat being that you have to have a specialized PC motherboard with NAS slots - or buy an PCI-Express hub that will allow to use NAS drives with an ordinary mobo?

[@alwayscuriousalwayslearnin]

a question, so is it ok to buy a single NAS drive and use it for storage of say movies and a few other files for a single person that sometimes streams movies or stores files onto it. I ask because I use a raspi4 that has two 2TB hard drives connected to it, I want to use a single harddrive with its own powersource instead of a two Hard drives using USB3 adapters my raspi is always powered on so are the drives connected to it

[@Digmen1]

I have just a standard Windows PC I have a physicaal D and E drives and a SSD boot drive with Windows on it. Are my D and E drives working all the time ? or only when I read or copy data to them?

[@fredc8487]

Great video, what is best rpm speed for Nas hard drives

[@TimmyMoza]

Maybe a comment or mention about the internal drive cache that assists in the write optimizations or balanced optimizations... you can see the bias when you look at the drive detailed specs. (Im not talking about nas cache)... great tech vid and well grounded advice in this vid. Thank you.

[@williamyf]

When you put drives on a NAS, the recomended course of action is to disable the Write cache, even if you have an UPS.

[@julianotrotta]

@NASCompares Hi! Does a desktop PC support using an Exos (Seagate Exos X16 ST14000NM001G 14TB 7200 RPM) as HD without doing Raid like a individual SATA HD? I've been asking but no one has been able to answer this question so far.

[@stephenkbolton]

Perfect timing! Just looking to get my first nas.

[@Tenus123]

Just bought a pair one week ago. Ohh here we go...

[@AdrianvanWijk]

I'm in the same boat :-( noisy HD,s just added

[@ctrchg]

great info, thanks!

[@dennisfrancisco5686]

I am planning on buying my first NAS and am also on a budget. Based on what I have heard here, buying a 4 bay NAS and buying smaller capacity HDs will be "cheaper" (e.g. 3x 4TB instead of 2x 8TB HD) giving me the same total of 8TB storage. My question here is, when the time comes that I need bigger capacity HDs, how will I do it? Let's say I need 16TB of storage now instead of just the 8TB I had when I started (3x 4TB on RAID 5 configuration). Please advise. Thank you.

[@SuspiciousAra]

Good info. What about different writing technology like cmr amd others?

[@mix_it_up_bro8735]

How good are NAS apps (like WD OS5) at playing back Hi-Res music (say, FLAC or WAV) vs streaming services; such as Spotify, Tidal, or Amazon Music, playing at their max output levels?

[@scottbarrons8192]

What sort of opinion of these new Enterprise SSD's vs, Platter Drives, for long term use/storage?

[@Cuthalu]

Some of the pro hard drives are the least noisiest (Hitachi MG, Ironwolf Pro), which is why silence enthusiasts specifically target them. Regular hdd's are noisy by comparison.

[@luigibonacci7800]

for synology....on their compatibility list it shows a 6TB WD Red pro only. Is it possible to just buy the 6TB WD Red instead or do I have to follow that compatibility list?

[@zyborg47]

I have two 8TB Toshiba n300 drives in raid 1 in my Teramaster F4-210, the main reason i choose Toshiba is that they use CMR and SMR, but not sure if it really makes that much of a difference. i am thinking of getting a Teramaster DAS, the D4-300, no raid on that model, so it will be more or less like an external usb drive, but with four bays, so I presume I could use just a normal lower end drive and not a NAs spec drive, like the Toshiba p300 series, saying that the x300 series are not that more expensive, has a faster spin speed, but would it really make a lot of difference on USB3.1? Mmm.

[@Digmen1]

Hi Is there really much difference in their design that makes them more reliable, or is it just hype.

[@freddie3d]

Sadly I didn't watch this video before I bought a new NAS 3 months ago, my old DS214p died and I had to get up and rjnning again so inmh stress I bought a DS220+ and and soon after upgraded the discs to 2x16Tb Toshiba. I have now come go the conclusion I'd rather have a DS920 with 3x8Tb drives. That would also have given me a quad core instead of the dual core and possibility for SSD cache if needed down the line. Sure a DS920 doubles the price of a DS220+ but as you mention you will save that on buying 3 smaller drives ror a RAID5 instead of a RAID1.

[@rsgg6215]

I am populating a DS920+ NAS I have 2x 16TB WD Red Pro drives in bay 1 & 2 and I am planning to remove 2x 4TB WD Ext HD enclosure USB-3 drives to put in bays 3 & 4. Do you believe this is a good idea and will work OK? Set up in Synology SHR. Note the External HD's were being used in a WD My Cloud always on type set up.

[@SebVEVO]

I'm concerned about the noise but I still want to buy Pro harddisk. Then I assume that it would be better for me to go for a 2 bay instead of a 4 bay because the latter would be noisier?

[@mikelaicarpentier]

Great info, thanks!

[@iankester-haney3315]

I got an Asustor NAS and 4 10TB Ironwolf Exos drives. Now I am replacing 1 due to relocated sectors via smart. Seagate didn't even ask for info before processing an rma. Gotta love pro level gear.

[@noth606]

Old comment, but of course Seagate asked for info, they need your address to deliver the replacement HDD. On a more serious note, when you're support you learn how to tell who knows what they are talking about VS those who don't, but also, often the people for pro and non-pro support are the same, but the rules and QOS targets are different. By this I mean that for product line A there may be a question like "has it been retried after full format and firmware upgrade?" that is mandatory, while for product line B that may not be there. I used to be one of the people running the support for a storage brand, that's where I get this from. There is a whole lot more to it, like we would know if a drive is likely to have a specific type of failure behavior based on the serial number/PID/mfg date etc - it won't be communicated to the customer but it will show in the system once the unit is identified. So if you call describing a known failure type affecting a matching model and mfg date, there is no point in jabbering on further, we'll just replace it and call it good.

[@MrNaufan]

So if i just want to make a long term archival storage. Buying WD Blue drives would be enough than buying WD Red drives right?

[@albertludick505]

Thanks for the great video, NASComares do you recommend enabling or disabling HDD Hibernation ? I have some Seagate EXOS drives with 2 500 000 MTBF but it does not give a start stop count rating in the spec sheet. I am using a Synology DiskStation DS1821+ 8 Disk populated, General NAS for file storage at home with photos, Plex etc. my current power on hours are 2088 but my start stop count is already 1372, this is with a 20 minutes Hibernation set, as the EXOS drives as designed to run in data centre 24x7 should I rather disable hibernation?, or should i get better lifespan by leaving it enabled?

[@Trizelz]

Did you find an answer for this?

[@S0ldiEr891989]

Even has the time to answer emails direct.. top lad.

[@hromana]

Iam using a QNAP TVS473 for surveillance and media (Store movies/pictures) usage. Can I mix 1x surveillance HDD with 3x NAS HDD?

[@djl5019]

Can I use a NAS hard drive to record IPTV? I use an app ( TiviMate ), that allows for recording TV shows and movies.

[@mauritsl84]

Toshiba MG07ACA12TE for sure. Some of the best drives and super Price

[@Tastewithnewdrinks]

Great review.

[@WaqasRaufw]

Nice video but you missed the Enterprise HDD which are much better than the NAS HDD, I think Enterprise have special cooling mechanisms, sensors that detect and correct vibration, etc.

[@dskhajanchi]

And even you can suggest me which NAS i should buy, I am also in IT field and in short time I will start my youtube videos.

[@bartezpl2195]

than 1 conclusion if i want to buy 2TB hdd to my home personal desktop for only data keeping (photos, movies, etc - because i have ssd-s for system and games) i shouild looking only for something like seagate barracuda or WD blue right? and what about rpm better 7200 or 5400 ?

[@krisclores3096]

i can i use nas hard drive and surveillance hard drive together on synology is there any affect on vibration of surveillance hdd to nas HDD?

[@mixmeister9985]

Great video 👍

[@EchoRomeIndiaCharlie]

Hello. Is it possible to do this: Buy a Gigabit PCIE card for my PC, connect it directly to the NAS for fast file transfer from the PC & use the original ethernet port for Internet access? Would you still be able to use the NAS in the normal way while connected to the PC? Good idea for a video?

[@colonelangus7535]

The SMART data on shucked 8TB and larger WD externals report as helium filled HGST golds. Those are my go to.

[@nikolarudic5349]

They are noise, just to know, i was scared that my is broken, than i read that all sound and vibration its making is normal

[@AfternoonLemon]

Good point about quantity of drives (x3 drives in RAID5 vs x2 drives in RAID1), but if you had 4x8TB drives, how would you upgrade to 4x16TB drives? Presumably that can't be done in-place?

[@1014p]

No it would require making an image to a larger drive then installing new drives. Then load image over them. I had a 3 drive raid and one time windows failed. Just loaded image over raid array and booted up.

[@brainwashed2054]

Can you please advise if you can use IronWolf Pro on a 2 Bays Synology NAS please? Thank you! I inserted a IronWolf drive and the system warned the drive is not compatible and advise not to use.thank you!

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

I have a Synology NAS with 4 bays, filled up with 6Tb drives from Seagate Ironwolfs in RAID 10, gives me redundant HD space of 12Tb, and using teaming LAN to read and write. Nice setup. I use only Seagate NAS drives, because WD is implementing SHR in some of their red HD's which have less performance. And even loss of data, so be careful with WD.

[@Un1234l]

You just have to know the product number of the WD drive you're getting, then cross-reference with the hard drive data sheet. I.E. WD EFAX products are SMR drives; EFRX are CMR; EFZX are CMR. EFAX is 256 MB cache;. EFRX is 64 MB cache; EFZX is 128 MB cache. Ironwolfs are definitely great drives, but if you'd have known this beforehand, you could have potentially saved money by buying the WD Reds, if their lower data transfer rates and URE rates are acceptable to you.

[@ronm6585]

Thank you. 👍

[@johnwilsoniii4757]

Great video 🫡✊🏾💯

[@PietroTerry]

you are very skilled, i am so sad that i don't understand english language, just readind sometihing wrote i can understand . but i want to tell tou that you are really good!!!

[@darylcheshire1618]

I have a Qnap 2 bay NAS and I put in two 3 TB red WD drives, unfortunately these were the defective drives which ran slowly. I spoke to a WD rep about it who seemed confused and I gave up. It is still useable but it takes hours to do anything. I’m thinking of getting a Synology DS220+ which is recommended by several reviewers. But your comments about getting a 4 bay NAS and half size drives in a RAID5 configuration is interesting. I tried to change the existing NAS to a RAID 1 but it kept wanting to replicate itself (12hrs) again and again and again.

[@VI-ve3qz]

Probably because you have SMR drives instead of CMR.

[@darylcheshire1618]

@@VI-ve3qz correct

[@peterl8417]

It would be nice to know what to do with replaced hard drives when you buy a new one. That is what I always plan for, a use case for the old hard drive before I buy one. I am coming from 4TB to 10TB drives btw.

[@williamyf]

Buy 2.5" 10TB SATA Exos, That way, at the end of their life, they can go on the NAS of a user with less demands than you, or on a laptop, or on a desktop (with a bracket), or on an enclosure as portable drives. Be mindful of reading the spec sheet in full, and avoid SATA 2.5" Exos with SMR.

[@marn200]

so as someone who isnt very good at math, if i have a 4-bay nas and want a total of 4TB in a raid 5 config, which drives do i need?

[@erikrosvall4387]

I just build my first diy nas, i bought wd red smr drives. Im using unraid as OS, but im not sure if i bought the right drives...

[@illmaindc]

first time buyer, normal nas drive run plex media conformably?

[@the_bogeyman.]

WD red pro vs gold, what’s your suggestion? Very close price.

[@kfl611]

Maybe I looked at this video wrong, but how does this relate to solid state drives? What if my nas is all ssd?

[@matth.imaging8952]

Concerning regular NAS drives vs. Surveillance drives: What when you start use to use a SDD cache or SDD with Qtier? Does it then still matter? Another option could be to have e.g. a 3 drive RAID5 in your NAS filled with regular drives and put 1 surveillance drive in there for your surveillance and create a separate storage pools on each. Or if you do not want to give up a that slot in the NAS, can you attach a single USB drive to the NAS for the surveillance application instead (just put the surveillance drive inside an USB casing)?

[@xxDrain]

I just want a NAS at home for basic backups: 2 disks in RAID1, just for windows image backup and file history. Bought a cheap office PC, motherboard only has SATA 2 ports, do I really need to know anything about HDDs? :D As long as they're new, I figure they'll last with this low usage. Although they'll still be powered on 24/7.

[@coraedread1655]

Very informative as always, could I use 1 purple for surveillance and 3 red for data in a DS920+ 🤔

[@nascompares]

Yes, you 100% can. However I would NOT recommend mixing them together in the same storage pool (RAID).

[@coraedread1655]

Thanx, I was thinking of 3 pools in my DS920+ 1 2TB surveillance 1 6Tb personal data and 1 pool w/2 12TB for media

[@GrayMatter70]

Would be nice to put some numbers to the noise differences. I recognise that measuring noise is almost a science in itself but measuring a couple of the most common scenarios for Pro vs non-Pro would be helpful (with other things kept as similar as possible to make it a fair comparison). I'd rather get Pro drives if I can, but if I need ear defenders to make it workable then maybe not!

[@ThomasOatman]

you know.... :-) I consider myself a non-pro as far as NAS... I mean, it is just ME (not multiple people accessing)... backup data, Music, Photos, Plex, .... But I swear my 1621+ has been running non-stop for months since I bought it. Between the various Indexing, Volume Leveling, Face Recognition, Thumbnail Creation, Data Scrubbing, Volume Expansion, Space Reclamation, bla, bla bla....... The constant noise drives me mad. I am always wondering, what the heck is it doing NOW!!! 57 to 60+dbA at the unit; 45dbA 4ft away where I am. which frankly doesn't seem like a bad number; but the noise is very distracting and I don't have an option to move it anywhere 😞

[@1014p]

Db meter which about any phone can do now or if purpose built desired many devices to measure. Very affordable options. Another words like silencer testers that go ah its quieter than x. Then go well db testing is pointless. Which is not true. Going to pc builds, servers, and hardware noise comparisons. You would think tech guys would be all over.

[@davidhunt5682]

I bought a SMR drive only to find out Synology only works with CMR drives. Can you explain the differences and benefits of each of these types of drives?

[@tonybeckett66]

Very informative video, I'm debating between a Synology or TrueNas setup on an old PC for personal use

[@deadlyqueen]

I'm buying a WD 4TB Red NAS CMR drive for my PC, because my WD Purple 2TB is almost full (Yes, I got a surveillance drive, it worked just fine). I do a lot of torrenting, that's a lot of reads and writes, so I think it will be better than a WD blue. I also leave my computer on at night a lot, that's another reason the drive I'm buying might be best. I don't want to spend more money on a WD Black and get the half amount of storage for the same amount of cash.

[@TheWolfster001]

What would be best for me? We, basically just want a NAS for media (archive) so we can have movies, pic's & music so we can use throughout our home. It would be only used by my wife & I, using computers, laptops or our phones.......

[@samueldeering7393]

Could you please make a video on synology mail plus?

[@taranagnew436]

what is the equation to use to find out the storage vs price?

[@jacksimple3766]

Can I put a NAS hdd to my gamer desktop and run games from it well?

[@bobbymoss6160]

New generation of Exos Mach.2 HDDs are a real game changer when it comes to noise reduction. I don't know how Seagate does it, but these dual actuator SATA HDDs are near silent compared to normal enterprise NAS drives.

[@M4L1y]

is it better to buy NAS just as a single HDD for video storage, instead of simple HDD

[@derfacecrafter1869]

i also watch this video before i bought my HDDs Now i have a Iron wolf M.2 at 16200h and 97TBW and 8 EXOS X18 at 8100h. Just work fine. The SSD is sometimes a bit warm but nothing critical i think. 52°C

[@SHNAKZ69]

Should i use a nas if i have a movie server?

[@jpdenat1]

Please explain how to do automatic , scheduled back up of my C:drive ( certain selected work forders for example ) onto synology !!! PLEASE !

[@bobbymoss6160]

Google

[@ThomasOatman]

Dude! how do I upload a picture? Just before watching this video, I had an "experience" with a Desktop drive (shucked from a Seagate backup unit) in my NAS. I just finished using the drive to backup my main volume, rebuild the main volume with 20TB WD Red Pro drives (looking forward to the iNAND performance), and then restore. I like running benchmarks, so of course I got the numbers for the new drives first. Afterwards, I tested all the older drives... with and without Write Cache Enabled.... One drive at a time, three drives at once, etc... I put this 'desktop' drive back into the DX517 and that entire volume puked instantly. Synology fella helped me get everything straight again but told me it had to be the drive that caused the problem..... ya right!.... Well, I took the drive apart and found flakes of something on almost every platter surface (in the same spot if you are looking down at the stack).... That seemed pretty crazy. Then I removed the heads and see tiny wire looking things sticking out as well as what almost looks like a flake/chunk of gold. Perhaps the benchmarks overheated something? SMART temps looked quite fine during all the testing.... Would love to send pics (have a video too). And to think - it had my data precariously held. I feel so lucky it waited another day to die. I've had many HDDs since the mid-80's; this is the 4th or 5th Seagate that has croaked on me (just in the past 5 years). Never any trouble with WD -- I had one drive at 54k hours runtime. I only removed it because the size was no longer of use. So now I have 2 WD Red Pro SSD for system volume (databases, main packages, temp files...); 4 WD Red Pro HDDs for Plex; and 2 WD Red Pro NVMe for cache 😀 It (1621+) is SO much faster than before! Now a question -- I have a 20TB UltraStar Enterprise/DataCenter drive (with same iNAND caching as the Red Pros). Since the WD Reds benchmark slower than the HC560, I have to wonder which is really better for my Pro-sumer self...? Seems to me a "Data Center" is going to have lots of drives side-by-side just like a NAS.... [I can't imagine the vibrations in a BackBlaze POD!!! yikes! and the noice in that room has to be deafening.] So it seems like the slightly cheaper UltraStar might have been an okay choice. You also mentioned Metal cases for the NAS making it louder. I wonder if you stick some of those silicon heat strips on the inside of the cover if it would help... I have used those to overcome rattles and hums in external enclosures. #geek #overthinker oh. btw. Thanks for all your informative videos !!