Hi,
I have just purchased a Synology DS918+ and looking for HDDs to install, it appears that HDD enclosures are the best value (shucking involved) are these a good option?
Amazon.com.au
WD Elements Desktop Hard Drive 8TB $230.79
https://www.amazon.com.au/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG…
WD Elements Desktop Hard Drive 10TB $321.40
https://www.amazon.com.au/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG…
Cheers,
Phil
Well you need to know different types of HDD. Some are built for home use some are for server or Nas uses.
The later more durable but more expensive.
From what I know, all the desktop HDD with enclosure are for home usage.
You can still put them in nas of course
It's going to be used as a movie server, I have 2k dvd I want to rip so just home use.
DVDs? Guessing it's home movies of the family or something, otherwise torrent is your friend for higher quality
Go for drives like WD Red if you want reliability. Given you have 4x bays, set-up a raid for backing it up
There's lots of videos on shucking drives. Looks like the WD enclosures might have WD Red drives inside it, although it's not clear whether there's different quality WD Red drives that get selected for enclosures.
Those external drives with white label WD Reds seem to be good for shucking according to the internet, but the 10TB have been around $260 recently so you're better off waiting for another deal like that.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/480246
The main caveat is I've read they could be configured like desktop drives, meaning if the drive starts failing it'll continuously try to read the data and hang the NAS. To set it to behave like a NAS drive, which aborts if it can't read the data and then tells the OS about it, apparently you have to set a command every time the NAS is rebooted, which sounds pretty annoying.
I haven't verified that this is definitely the case though.
Seagate drives - I am done with those and will never buy them again. Maybe a sample size of one isn't a good indicator but my experience with Seagate has not been good to say the least.
you have to set a command every time the NAS is rebooted, which sounds pretty annoying.
Would be interesting to see why that can't be scripted and set to run automatically at boot time.
Well you can, but from what I previously read on Reddit it also has to be done per drive so even if you script it, you'd have to update the script whenever you add another shucked drive.
Not a dealbreaker if you can be bothered (after all it saves a good $100 per drive), but also not something you want to deal with if you don't have to.
but also not something you want to deal with if you don't have to.
What's a couple of lines in a script, when you're shucking drives?
Thanks for the advice
As all mechanical drives do eventually fail so I would say shucking is not a good option as you will probably lose warranty, plus, it's a lottery if it's a half decent drive inside the caddy.
My 2-cents are to go with the best returns/warranty program which seems to be Seagate ($10 shipped to SYD) and I'd be looking at either the Seagate IronWolf or, BarraCuda line of drives.
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