I have not had good luck with WD Red drives - mine have died early.  I have bought enterprise drives since and had much better results.  And often now, enterprise drives can be cheaper than NAS drives, especially the Seagate Exos range.

I have a mix of WD Red NAS drives, Seagate NAS and Toshiba to make sure I'm balancing my risk.

fe31nz:

 

I have not had good luck with WD Red drives - mine have died early.  I have bought enterprise drives since and had much better results.  And often now, enterprise drives can be cheaper than NAS drives, especially the Seagate Exos range.

 

The SMR drives or the NAS ready versions?

Yes the two that died were WD Reds, but the Seagate Exos and SSD boot drive survived.

Enterprise drives are fine too, does anyone have any drives they are looking to upgrade from? 8TB Ironwolf and Exos drives are about $400 new so looking for about $250 for used.

Thanks.

Out of interest, any leads on large capacity drives for single use in a desktop?
I have 6TB currently but maxing that out so want to go larger.

Have typically used WD Blue from Amazon and never had any issues, but what's the vibe on the street these days in this space?