8TB drive recommendations for 2019?

[MiG]

Which would be the 8TB drives to go to right now?
I'm considering:

• WD80EFAX
• ST8000VN0022
• HDWF180UZSVA

My current pool consists of ST8000VN0002, ST8000DM002 and WD80EFZX. I have no complaints about them, but 1-3 drives per type make for a poor reliability bell curve.

I already bought one ST8000VN0022, and hooked up to a Win7 machine in a USB3 cradle, it powers down after a minute or so of inactivity (whereas other drives don't, so I assume it's the drive rather than the cradle). Would this be an issue in a FreeNAS setup?

 

[tfran1990]

Shuck the ezstore 8/10TB drives , you can get a 8TB red/whitelable for ~130 depending on the sale.
google around and you will find some info on it.

 

[MiG]

Shucking is another matter, right now I'm more interested in comparative reliability (and other possible issues, cfr the ST power down thing) between these three :)

 

[MiG]

Does anyone have positive/neutral/negative experiences with these three (or other 8TB) drives?

The power down thing was rather unexpected (and I don't know if this will be an issue under FreeNAS), so I 'd welcome any comments on their operations/performance/reliability :)

 

[rfielder]

The last drive is for a workstation, not a NAS. I am not this matters...

As for reliability, both the Seagate and the WD have 3 year warranty. If you want reliability, you may want to pay a bit more for the enterprise editions, which have a 5 year warranty.

Then again, I have a WD Gold drive in my server, which has a 5 year warranty, and has failed. At least, once I get it out of there, I will get a replacement! Yet another reason why RAID levels were invented... :(