8TB WD Red NAS vs Seagate NAS?

[Ericloewe]

4. Should i enable HDD standby, advanced power management, or acoustic level (to minimum) to help extend destroy the life of my drives

FTFY

 

[danb35]

Should i enable HDD standby, advanced power management, or acoustic level (to minimum) to help extend the life of my drives or would it be minimally usefull.

It would be minimally, if at all, useful.

 

[Stux]

By far the most important thing for hard drive longevity is ensuring they don't get too hot.

And the next thing is keeping them spinning 24x7

 

[joeschmuck]

As everyone here beat me to the advice, I will still repeat it. Leave the settings alone. It is a terrible thing to spin up and down your drives all the time and they very well could do that a lot and it just kills the drive motor or more so the electronics powering the digital motor. Let them run. Keep them cool. If you will be using your system rarely then I would suggest you just turn it off when you don't need it, however if you find yourself using the NAS more than once a week, then I'd just leave it on. I think you will find that you start storing other files on it pretty quickly. I don't use my NAS everyday, okay I actually do but it's an automated backup from my computers. I probably actively do something with my NAS files a few times a week, but mostly on the weekends when I use my home computer the most.

 

[eddie200112]

Thanks for all the help!
Just wanted to update. The replacement with the 8TB drives went well. Each drive took about 12 hours to resilver and now have a good ~12TB of free storage space.