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I am planning a NAS build for the future. I wouldn't get around to it until Q1 or Q2 of 2018. But in the meantime, I am planning on starting to acquire HDDs. I am planning on a build running 6x 8TB WD Reds in RAID-Z2 for a usable storage pool of 28TB (or 8x 8TB in RAID-Z3). My current storage needs are about 8-9TB not counting system backups and I expect it will grow over the 5+ years I would like to get out of this future NAS build.
Ive been watching Slickdeals.net, and I see that Best Buy sells the WD Easystore 8TB external hard drives. I see people buying these, opening them up taking the WD Red drive out for use in their NAS. Has anyone here had success with this here on these forums, and used them in their builds? You can get a 8TB Easystore for 160-180$ before taxes. Seems like a great deal for the 8TB WD Reds with 256MB cache. Any reason not to periodically pick these drives up for my NAS build in 2018?
Ive been watching Slickdeals.net, and I see that Best Buy sells the WD Easystore 8TB external hard drives. I see people buying these, opening them up taking the WD Red drive out for use in their NAS. Has anyone here had success with this here on these forums, and used them in their builds? You can get a 8TB Easystore for 160-180$ before taxes. Seems like a great deal for the 8TB WD Reds with 256MB cache. Any reason not to periodically pick these drives up for my NAS build in 2018?