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

[Alex K]

It's generally a good idea to mix different drive models in your NAS. All
the drives are going to die eventually, but at least not at the same time.

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 10:08 PM Jason Eckert <jason.eckert at gmail.com> wrote:

> WD drives were my go-to for many years, but I've had a lot of failures
> with them in recent years for some reason.
> So I've switched to Seagate IronWolf (8TB, CMR) and they've been rock
> solid so far.
> Just my two cents...
>
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 9:22 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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>
>>> 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> 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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