With black Friday sales coming up, I’m hoping to start building a NAS for my home. I have the server and stuff, but wondering which drives to get for storage.

From everything I’ve looked at, seems like Seagate Ironwolf and WD Red seem to be highly recommended. I’m leaning towards the Ironwolf 8TB drives right now. These are retailing for $160+tax right now, which I feel is a pretty good price to get these

However, I’m wondering if any of you experienced folks have any other suggestions for me.

Thanks!

  • ItsMeBrandon_GBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I bought 20+ Recertified Class Western Digital WDC H530 14tb’s for 126.99$ each from serverpartsdeals.com over the last six months. Comes with a 2 year warranty, which is about what you would expect a drive to have anyways.

    I also have a dozen Ironwolf 12tb’s (no pro) which have 3yr warranty, but still, if I had new about the recertified drives then I would’ve been all over those.

    Really its about how much space do you need, how many SATA slots can you fill, and your use for them.