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

[William Park]

And, according to their report, Seagate don't come out ahead. :-)
--William

On 3/7/21 8:36 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> I used to be a WD fan, but lately I've had better luck with Seagate..  
> honestly, it's a model-by-model thing.
>
> Check out the Backblaze report.  They keep track of their drives 
> failure rates and publish it yearly: 
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/
>
>
>
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 20:16, William Park via kwlug-disc 
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>> wrote:
>
>     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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