Hey all,
Figured I would ask for some suggestions / advice here as to what to do for my next round of purchasing drives for my new NAS system that I will be building.
I'm trying to decide between getting 6 x Seagate 4TB (ST4000DM000) or 6 x WD 3TB Red (WD30EFRX) drives to be placed in RAIDZ2. These drives will mostly be for storage of movie backups, music (mp3/lossless), and some other random storage needs. Not planning on doing any VM's off of it.
Would like to have some thoughts overall. Mostly asking since my experiences with the Seagate 3TB (ST3000DM001) have been horrible, with the noise coming from them (head parking issues that people are talking about) and trying to get all of the firmwares in order / matching. I only have 4 x 3TB (ST3000DM001) Seagate's right now but have been all making the same noises but seems to be working fine.
Anyways, I'm not really sure what to do with picking between those two mentioned above. I assume the noise and "head parking" issue or whatever people were calling it has been fixed and are not happening with the 4TB drives?
Overall I would think the WD Red's would have faster transfer rates and improve my large file transfers, just don't know by how much, so to say.
Thanks for all of the advice in advance,
Narfski
Figured I would ask for some suggestions / advice here as to what to do for my next round of purchasing drives for my new NAS system that I will be building.
I'm trying to decide between getting 6 x Seagate 4TB (ST4000DM000) or 6 x WD 3TB Red (WD30EFRX) drives to be placed in RAIDZ2. These drives will mostly be for storage of movie backups, music (mp3/lossless), and some other random storage needs. Not planning on doing any VM's off of it.
Would like to have some thoughts overall. Mostly asking since my experiences with the Seagate 3TB (ST3000DM001) have been horrible, with the noise coming from them (head parking issues that people are talking about) and trying to get all of the firmwares in order / matching. I only have 4 x 3TB (ST3000DM001) Seagate's right now but have been all making the same noises but seems to be working fine.
Anyways, I'm not really sure what to do with picking between those two mentioned above. I assume the noise and "head parking" issue or whatever people were calling it has been fixed and are not happening with the 4TB drives?
Overall I would think the WD Red's would have faster transfer rates and improve my large file transfers, just don't know by how much, so to say.
Thanks for all of the advice in advance,
Narfski