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Is NAS hard drives the best idea of a Home Media Server? Ironwolf or WD Red?

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#1 ·
I'm been piecing my home server together over the last month and I've about got it finished. I'm needing a hard drive to store media and i'm not sure which to get. Right now between Newegg and Amazon there are some good deals on regular hard drives and NAS hard drives. In particular the Seagate Ironwolf and WD Red. I know Seagate has a bad reputation for dying hard drives but from the reviews I've seen the Ironwolf NAS hard drives seem to be a good performer. On the other hand the WD Red is a proven reliable and solid performer.

Questions

1. Are NAS drives the only option for storage in a home server?

2. Is Seagate Ironwolf worth the gamble or should I just go with WD Red and play it safe?
 
#4 ·
i don't know what's going on with seagate, but i currently runs 4 of them without problem. 1 is the old 7200.12 and another one is constellation es sas drive that has been working for 1600-ish days, and 2 other is their cheetah 15k series which has been used for like 1800-ish days

so... why not?

from what i read, seagate ironwolf runs cooler on idle and slightly faster with slightly hotter temp on sustained load
 
#6 ·
are those toshiba drives good?
i have one laying around just because it's suddenly got like 1000 reallocated bad sectors
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it still runs but the health were 9% left so.. i decided to put it down recently
 
#7 ·
Actually, the Seagate drives dieing was a bunch of shenanigans.

The statistics were from a data center, who sold unlimited storage using drives in environments they were not intended to be used in. Back when the disasters hit the hard drive manufactures ( which they have been milking, ever since..... ) they were buying consumer EXTERNAL drives, shelling them, then using in a data center, 24/7.

There's is a reason nas drives exist. Moreover, there is a reason commercial drives exist.
 
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