Best enterprise grade hdd?

[Svetgar]

Putting together a new file server for my home and am in analysis paralysis regarding which hard drives to get. Pretty much narrowed it down to Seagate Enterprise Capacity or Western Digital RE or maybe SE.

Leaning towards the Seagate due to the 128mb cache, all other specs seem similar. I do have one WD RE drive and it is fast and quiet. Never used the Seagate Enterprise stuff, though I am currently using a Seagate desktop drive with no complaints.

Any thoughts?

 

[Zedicus]

lots of people love seagate but i never have acceptable results with them. my vote is hitachi ultrastar (now owned by WD) or WD reds. currently i have arrays with hitachi drives, WD reds, Seagates, and at work i have some other SAS and SATA hardware based arrays. the Seagate Cheetah line is one seagate line i will give props too. for large reliable data storage, go with something else.

 

[Olga-SAN]

toshiba

from your list re for sure

because or ure 1^-15

 

[the_b_man]

WD RE is 'entry level enterprise' or 'capacity enterprise', and would be my vote for certain applications. However I don't know your exact application so won't weigh in.

I would point out though;
1) WD Red are not enterprise drives, they are home NAS drives
2) You may not need enterprise drives; 10^14 URE is fine if you're using something like ZFS

Look carefully at what you're expecting from the drives; if they're in RAID, you'll need TLER, how many drives, what your budget is, etc.

 

[Svetgar]

Like I said, use is going to be a home file server. The one I have is 2003 based and is going to EOL shortly. I am not looking at WD Reds, or any other consumer drive frankly. I expect them to run 24x7x365 until 202X when sever 2012 is EOL'd.

I thought about the HGST stuff but I'm not as familiar with their product. The Seagate indicates their URE is 10^16. Not planning on using ZFS. Haven't decided on RAID.

I just want dependable. I lament the loss of Samsung HDDs. Right now I have 6 Samsung consumer grade 750gbs that have been running 24x7x365 for a little over 6 years and they just keep on going.

 

[ToddW2]

For home use I'd save a couple bucks and go SE.
My last NAS had SE and RE drives (Synology) and the one before that Green.

All drives are still going strong (RE, SE, GREEN). The greens are ~5 years old and stopped running 24/7 ~2 years ago.

For my 'home' file server I went with Toshiba and WD RED for my current build, 5TB drives, sweet spot when I got them for $199 (WD RED). But, I'm running ZFS and RAIDZ2 for my main storage pool too.

For my web servers spinning drives I went with WD RE 4TB and 3TB, and some 2.5" WD 300gb Velociraptors for that size server.

 

[SirNoobALot]

my $.02...

Every Seagate I've ever owned has failed, so I cannot recommend them. Their E grade might be a different story, but I am done with them entirely.

I do not recommend going with Green drives. They time out and spin down after only 6 seconds, leading to very high head load counts. Many drives I have owned for YEARS have counts under 100, but my WD Green 1.5tb has a power cycle count of 400, just under 1 year total uptime... but a load cycle count of 161,864!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's an average of 400+ head load cycles every time I turn on the computer. crazy. Anyway, no other smart statuses worry me, but that is just too risky for my to get other green's.

Whatever you get, just make sure you have them isolated from vibration as much as you can. (those little rubber grommet things work very well). I've heard good things about Toshiba, but I haven't used enough of them to get a good idea about them. HGST is another to consider. They are more expensive, but very reliable and utilitarian. But the Hitachi (HGST) are the only enterprise grade I currently use. I recommend them, but have nothing to compare them with.