Hard Drive Upgrades

[DarkSorrow]

I'm looking to upgrade my current NAS disks. I'm looking at 4 of these drives listed bellow. Anyone try these yet?

Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD 10TB (Helium) 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256 MB Cache Internal Bare Drive (ST10000NM0016)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DSRHFOK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1C5CB5COPHGP0&psc=1

 

[siconic]

I'm looking to upgrade my current NAS disks. I'm looking at 4 of these drives listed bellow. Anyone try these yet?

Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD 10TB (Helium) 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256 MB Cache Internal Bare Drive (ST10000NM0016)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DSRHFOK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1C5CB5COPHGP0&psc=1

I have not used them at home, but they have some of the best reviews from the Tech industry, and a stagering 2.5 million MTBF. We do use them in our work Datacenter, but we have only been using them for 4 months. Early adopters like Netflix, said they reduced cost as a whole, because the DC A/C did not have to work as hard, and the drives themselves draw ~30% less power. Not to mention for most of us homegamers, they make it possible to torture these disks, without failure.

Since they are sealed, dust and humidity no longer matter. They run cooler, even in a garage. They are said to function, with no appreciable loss of lifetime, running at 45C indefinitly.

Soooooo, yeah, I want some, lol.

 

[DarkSorrow]

Very good. I wasnt sure because they are 7200RPM drives. The guide said those are bad but these are designed to be NAS usable. I think I'll drop the $1500 for them lol. I'm only using the 4 x 4TB Seagate BarraCuda in my home based NAS right now.

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[Inxsible]

If you have the extra $1500 lying around, then yeah go for it. But IMHO, for home storage applications, a regular WD red or Seagate Ironwolf would probably suffice. I run Ironwolfs and they run at about 42C as they too are 7200RPM drives. WD Reds are 5400? or 5900, I think. They might run a degree or 2 cooler. HGST Deskstar and Ultrastar are also great drives to have. Yet another option is the Seagate Constellation drives which are also Enterprise drives, but I don't think they are helium drives.

For the same $1500, you will be able to get twice the storage with Reds or Ironwolfs

 

[DarkSorrow]

The Seagate 10TB IronWolf is $20 cheaper so not much of a difference there. Get a better drive for a little more. These are also on sale I think.

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[siconic]

The Seagate 10TB IronWolf is $20 cheaper so not much of a difference there. Get a better drive for a little more. These are also on sale I think.

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I was just going to say the same thing. I am a fan of HGST, and all the 10TB disks that are worth anything are all hermetically sealed, filled with helium, run 7200RPM, and come with a 5 year warranty, all for about the same price. SOooooooo, this is going to be more a matter of personal preference, along with who has better quality.

Personally, I go HGST, and I have statistics to back up the claim. BackBlaze published their statistics every Quarter, a great resource for how good disks are in the industry.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-stats-q2-2017/

I think its worth noting that they do trust HGST and Seagate over other brands. If you look at some of their earlier quarters all the way back to 2015, you will see that HGST historically has less failures than any other brand. Other brands, fail far more frequently, and in some cases waaaaaaay too often.

https://www.backblaze.com/hard-drive.html