Looking for suggestions on best (most reliable) hard drives for NAS/Backup/STorage. I'm rebuilding my "NAS" (which is an old PC running Windows 10) and need to expand storage.
I am looking for 4TB-5TB per drive, and 3.5" form factor, as I will be putting them into a software RAID 1 with Windows 10 using storage pools.
Reliability will take precedence over speed (I do want decently fast drives that have decent read/write speeds, but overall, reliability will be most important since this will be used for archiving/backup purposes).
I used to WD Reds, but I had about 2 of them that started to exhibit what I could consider "odd" noises, almost sounding like the read arm coming in contact with a disk platter, so a period chirp/screech, which WD has said is "normal" but I don't think it is. Typical clacking when reading/writing the drive is normal, but not the "chrip" (sounds similar to a drive spindle motor issue is the best way I can describe the noise).
Anyway, I went with WD ever since Seagate had their firmware crisis with the 1.5TB drives about 20 years ago.
Suggestions? Key is reliability and ability to be powered on all the time. Speed comes second.
I am looking for 4TB-5TB per drive, and 3.5" form factor, as I will be putting them into a software RAID 1 with Windows 10 using storage pools.
Reliability will take precedence over speed (I do want decently fast drives that have decent read/write speeds, but overall, reliability will be most important since this will be used for archiving/backup purposes).
I used to WD Reds, but I had about 2 of them that started to exhibit what I could consider "odd" noises, almost sounding like the read arm coming in contact with a disk platter, so a period chirp/screech, which WD has said is "normal" but I don't think it is. Typical clacking when reading/writing the drive is normal, but not the "chrip" (sounds similar to a drive spindle motor issue is the best way I can describe the noise).
Anyway, I went with WD ever since Seagate had their firmware crisis with the 1.5TB drives about 20 years ago.
Suggestions? Key is reliability and ability to be powered on all the time. Speed comes second.