What is the best to use and without problems disks WD " Green or Red " or Seagate ? Also are he support large storage spaces larger than 6 Terra?
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I've had problems with Greens on servers/RAID before (not on this machine, though), so I was wary of them and bought a bunch of 4TB Reds that work great so far (about 4 months in). Combined storage spaces over 6TB are no problem - my RAID 5 is just under 12TB total, and you could go much higher with larger drives and a different configuration.
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From past experiences with WD I stopped using them several years ago. Seagate or Hitachi would be a better choice in my opinion.
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I have been purchasing WD and Seagste for over 15 years, both are fine, no preference.
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Hi. I never use greens, they fail to quickly. Red is ok, ensure you are ok with RPM. I tried 6tb red, didn't work. 4tb is max from my experience. I have two of these, work best on eSATA. Enjoy.
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I've had problems with Greens on servers/RAID before (not on this machine, though), so I was wary of them and bought a bunch of 4TB Reds that work great so far (about 4 months in).Combined storage spaces over 6TB are no problem - my RAID 5 is just under 12TB total, and you could go much higher with larger drives and a different configuration.
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The WD Red can be used as a standard drive. The WD Red is a standard SATA drive optimized for NAS operation, but it will work just like any other hard drive.
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I have the WDE1UBK10000N and it is a solid well built external! I don't think you can go wrong with the elements terabyte hdd!
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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Currently running four 4T WD drives , Win 7, 64 bit machinr. No idea if they support boot, using all for storage with four other 2T and 4 other 1T drives. Most are Seagate.
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I use both WD and Seagate for storage - I have a Blue Face WD10 EARS model, I've had that for about 7 years, I abuse it daily. On my other system, I bought a low-speed (5400 rpm?) Seagate ST1000DL - Which got some nasty reviews on Amazon - But I've had that for 2 years and no trouble, it's only for storage so I don't need the speed. I don't have any SATA3 HDD's at all, I don't have any motherboards that support it. I'll have to get an Add-on Card
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The EX2 has the more reliable WD Red NAS hard drives. Worth the extra cost IMHO.
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I used WD Black 4TB HDD, it works great for both USB 3.0 and eSATA, but need update Intel Rapid Storage Technology to using eSATA, I did not tried 6TB.
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All of these drives are good. It depends on the usage. I use mine in a Drobo array for video editing. They are fast enough, but not super fast. The more data you have stored, the slower they run. Probably need to make sure future drives are "enterprise" models.
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I haven't had any problems with any of the 3.5" drives I have tried. I think I have a Western Digital Green 1Tb in one and a 1.5Tb in the other at the moment (I have two, one for my main drive, the second for my backup).
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for everyone this data will be of interest: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/these are big samples, 2014 data, and the models of HGST 4TB drives are outperforming others in terms of reliability as well as price/perf
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ABSOLUTELY. I have been using a pair of 3TB, a pair of 4T and a pair of 1 TB seagates for some time with no problems. I do not use any of their special back-up software. (KIK, Ph.D.)
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In general , I prefer WD over Seagate. Personally, I have had more Seagate failures . The price is also very fair for the WD blue.
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http://www.synology.com/support/hd.php#94Here is a list of the recommended hard drives. I went by price, but any of them should work well for you. Doug
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HelloDoes this product supports the storage spaces 6 tb product like this ( Mediasonic H8R2-SU3S2 PRORAID 8 Bay External ) What is the best RAID system to avoid disruption of Hardisek
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I have 3 westerns in my pc i havent had a seagate in awhile. I have a seagate external drive and its ran fan for like 7 years. So i would look up some reviews of both and see which one is best.
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This is diskless - just be sure to get HD's that are made for NAS (Seegate ST4000VN000, WD WD40EFRX, etc) do not use energy savers or spin down disks, it will cause havoc on your RAID integrity. So plz do read what drives are supported and are recommended. I put the ST4000VN000, in all of my devices, works great.