[kwlug-disc] Hard Disk Drive for NVR

Francisco Dominguez fxdoming at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 19:40:20 EDT 2022


In all honestly.. I’ve been using WD Red drives.. no issues whatsoever and one of my synology arrays are easily overwriting about 10% per day

Francisco 
fxdoming at gmail.com

> On Sep 9, 2022, at 7:35 PM, Francisco Dominguez <fxdoming at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ive got some really nice maxtor RLL drives… still going strong :-)
> 
> Francisco 
> fxdoming at gmail.com
> 
>>> On Sep 9, 2022, at 4:51 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> I used to be a big fan of WD, but in the last few years I've been disappointed with their spinning disks.  I've been having good luck with Seagate.
>> 
>> But if it's spinning disks you want, then you owe it to yourself to check out the stats on BackBlaze:  https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2022/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 4:47 PM Ronald Barnes <ron at ronaldbarnes.ca> wrote:
>>> Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 2022-09-09 10:22:
>>> 
>>> > Due to past experience with Seagate, I am trying to stay away from
>>> > them in favour of WD. But it seems that this Seagate has better
>>> > reviews than the WD Purple equivalent.
>>> It seems in the past year or few that the zeitgeist has come to favour 
>>> Seagate over WD.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Some shenanigans like you mentioned re: shingled storage and part 
>>> numbers not reflecting that. And I'm struggling to think of other 
>>> issues, but pretty sure there's been more shady behaviour by WD.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> My negative 2¢ contribution...
>>> 
>>> rb
>>> 
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