[kwlug-disc] Which NAS harddisk? -- Seagate or Western Digital

[William Park]

 From my readings,

  * WD Red is SMR, but
  * WD Red Plus and Red Pro are CMR.

--William

On 3/7/21 7:44 PM, Nickle, Brian wrote:
> One of the things I have been hearing about is to stay away from 
> Shingled media recording (SMR) disk drives. Apparently they perform 
> poorly in raid configurations. Unfortunately not all vendors indicate 
> if the hard drive is SMR or not.
>
>
>
> On Sun., Mar. 7, 2021, 6:46 p.m. Ron Singh, <ronsingh149 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ronsingh149 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Live by the ABS rule -- A)nything B)ut S)eagate. WD's failure rate
>     is much better than Seagates. HGST fails the least.
>     These days, WD owns the HGST HDD lines, renamed as WD Red Pro.
>
>     I run an 8-drive QNAP NAS box with 8 pcs of 4TB HGST drives, slow
>     ones, 5200-ish RPM, SAF, but low-power. I never let them spin down
>     and have not had a failure since they have been in use since 2013.
>
>     Today's 4TB 7200RPM WD RED PRO stuff:
>     https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd#WD4003FFBX
>
>     We have tons of these 4TB, 8TB and 10TB in service, never had one
>     go bad in Raid5/Raid6/Raid50 in QNAP and Synology NAS boxes.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Ron S.
>
>
>
>     On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 6:31 PM William Park via kwlug-disc
>     <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         2 of my harddisks are failing, so I need to buy something
>         fairly soon.  Has Seagate improved their quality?  Or, should
>         I go with Western Digital as I usually do?
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