WD Red vs Toshiba Desktop DT for NAS

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lazyboy947

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Just built a new system for a home server and have yet to buy the hard drives, and saw a 3TB Toshiba DT drive on sale for $75, and my other option would be a WD red drive. So curious if it would be better to go with the 7200rpm drive or stick to a drive that is meant for a NAS and for 24x7 operation and go down to 5400rpm. Would consider other drives but price is an issue as I would like to buy a few and run raid.
 
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Yes both Segate, and Hitatchi would get my vote also lazyboy947.
Enterprise class or consumer.

Look at ones with a decent buffer or cache size also.
Larger better than smaller.

Also physical access times spin up , on read and write head operations, head searching in ms. Lower is better.

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Shaun o

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Hi,

What ever you do stay away from Toshiba hard disk drives.
There cheap for a reason and have quiet a high failure rate within weeks or months of use lazyboy947.
WD red drives are far more reliable.

I urge you not to get a Toshiba based hard drive at all costs, especially if the drive is going to be under 24-7 operation in a Nas setup.
trust me a Toshiba drive will let you down big time, there also very noisy under operation.
Just a heads up.
 
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Yes both Segate, and Hitatchi would get my vote also lazyboy947.
Enterprise class or consumer.

Look at ones with a decent buffer or cache size also.
Larger better than smaller.

Also physical access times spin up , on read and write head operations, head searching in ms. Lower is better.

 
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madmatt30

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I disagree on the quality of Toshiba drives , since reacquiring Hitachi & the Hitachi plant from WD in 2012 their drive IMO gave been very good if not great quality.

The deskstar is Toshiba manufactured now ,while it outperforms any other nas drive on the market its not been around long enough (2014) to really ascertain long term reliability.
 
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I might just go with reds, as the Toshiba whether or not they are reliable are just desktop drives, and i would worry there, also I have not had a single good experience with a seagate drive. My 1.5tb was rma'd once and has reallocated sectors, and my 3tb does not always connect when my pc powers on. Id like the hgst drives but are a little pricey.
 
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madmatt30

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I know a lot of people who just go with the wd greens for home nas/server use - theyre fast enough & tend to be cheaper by a fair bit.
for some odd reason wd have now renamed the green to the blue with with a different model number

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd30ezrz

the extra you pay for the reds is mainly for the 'customer support' & for the extra 1 year warranty not for any great range of extra features,performance or reliability imo.

& yep ,absolutely right,if there was one brand id steer clear off for 24/7 use it would definitely be seagate.

 
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I'm running twelve 3.0TB Toshiba DT01ACA300 drives 24x7 with no problems for about two years now, Toshibas are the only mechanical disk I purchase anymore now that Hitachi was broken up and sold off. I've had zero issues with the quality of modern Toshiba desktop drives. The only Toshiba drive I've personally seen gone bad was a laptop drive that was dropped.
I was bitten by the click of death on IBM deskstar 75GXPs, and knew several people with 10-20gb era Western Digital drives that went kaput.. and while I might be willing to try WD again sometime, I doubt I'll ever trust Seagate again after the numerous failures of 1.5TB and 3.0TB drives I've had. It's too bad they swallowed up Samsung, as I still have some 750GB Spinpoints running strong in 24x7 operation from over a decade ago.
 
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