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NAS Hard Drives – Which Should You Buy?

Choosing the Best Hard Drives for your NAS Note – this is the 2024 update of the rolling ‘best HDD for your NAS’ article (Cheers Clayton!) When choosing a NAS server for your home or business, selecting the right hard drive is essential. Just like every tool in a toolbox has its role, NAS-specific drives […]

Seagate 24TB Ironwolf Pro NAS Hard Drive Review

The Seagate Ironwolf Pro 24TB HDD Review Seagate and their Ironwolf series of hard drives have fast become a mainstay of the NAS landscape in a relatively short time, considering their NAS HDD and eventual rebranding to Ironwolf in 2015/2016. In that time they have closed considerable ground on their biggest rival in this field, […]

Introducing the WD Red Pro 24TB: A Reliable Workhorse for NAS Systems

Introducing the WD Red Pro 24TB: A Reliable Workhorse for NAS Systems

Western Digital has unveiled its latest addition to the Red Pro lineup: the WD240KFGX. With a capacious 24TB storage capacity and a slew of features tailored for NAS systems, this drive is poised to meet the demands of high-intensity workloads in multi-user environments. While the improvements over its predecessors might seem incremental, the WD Red […]

Seagate’s IronWolf Pro 24TB: The Ultimate NAS Hard Drive for Businesses ST24000NT002

Seagate’s IronWolf Pro 24TB: The Ultimate NAS Hard Drive for Businesses ST24000NT002

Seagate’s IronWolf Pro 24TB: The Ultimate NAS Hard Drive for Businesses ST24000NT002 Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX) has just launched the IronWolf Pro 24TB hard drive, setting a new standard in NAS storage solutions. Aimed at SMBs and enterprise-level NAS systems, this drive is a game-changer in handling the ever-increasing data demands. The IronWolf […]

NAS Hard Drive Buyers Guide

Choosing the Best Hard Drives for your NAS If you’re considering a NAS server for your home or business, selecting the appropriate hard drive is crucial. Just as each utensil in a cutlery set serves a unique purpose, NAS drives are designed for specific scenarios. Using unsuitable drive media in your NAS can significantly affect […]

WD Red or Red Plus or WD Red Pro?

WD Red or Red Plus or WD Red Pro?

WD Red vs Red Plus? I have just bought a DS220J and want to populate it in a RAID 1 configuration with two 2TB WD Red drives. I only want to use the NAS for local storage to serve files and to back up one or two local PCs. Would you recommend the Red or […]

Seagate 20TB Ironwolf Pro HDD Review – New NT Version

The Seagate Ironwolf Pro 20TB HDD Review – NT Enterprise Edition Seagate and their Ironwolf series of hard drives have fast become a mainstay of the NAS landscape in a relatively short time, considering their NAS HDD and eventual rebranding to Ironwolf in 2015/2016. In that time they have closed considerable ground on their biggest […]

WD Red Family for NAS – A Decade in Data

WD Red turns 10! It is hard to believe that it has been 10-years since Western Digital introduced its Network Attached Storage-focused range of drives, WD Red. In that time, we have seen the technology behind NAS evolve rapidly, in form factor, capacity and performance year-over-year – and throughout all that time, WD Red has […]

WD Red Pro 20TB NAS Hard Drive Review & Benchmark

Review of the MASSIVE WD Red Pro 20TB Hard Drive for NAS You really have to stop and marvel at the speed at which hard drives and storage, in general, grow every year. Despite the established rule of Moore’s law that these things double in size every two years, the very idea that Western Digital […]

WD Red Pro 22TB Hard Drive Review

Review of the WD Red Pro 22TB Hard Drive for NAS Remember when everyone said that hard drives would be dead by 2020? Yes, to say that statement has been debunked so incredibly thoroughly that it seems a bit comical to think that HDDs were going to go away any time soon. Yes, SSDs still […]

WD Red Pro 22TB and Synology NAS 10GbE & 5GbE Speed Tests – RAID 0 vs RAID 5

Synology DS1522+ NAS 10GbE RAID Testing with the WD Red Pro 22TB HDDs Technology is moving FAST! Yet one of the most overlooked fast-moving areas of technology in the market is data storage! In the last decade we have seen data storage averages used by consumers and businesses hugely multiply in volume and frequency, with […]

RAID 0 vs RAID 5 vs RAID 6 – WD Red Pro 22TB and QNAP NAS 10GbE Tests

QNAP TS-464 NAS 10GbE RAID 0/5/6 Testing with the WD Red Pro 22TB HDDs When you buy a new NAS and drives, one of the most important long-term decisions that you will make is choosing your RAID level. A RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is the process of combining multiple media drives together into […]

Skyhawk AI vs Ironwolf PRO

Skyhawk AI vs Ironwolf PRO

Skyhawk AI vs Ironwolf PRO – ST16000VE00 vs ST16000NE00 Besides a warranty of 5 years with Pro drives versus 3 years with Skyhawk, surveillance drives are better drives.     Surveillance AI ST16000VE00 Ironwolf Pro ST16000NE00 Speed 250MB/s 250MB/s MTBF 1.5m 1.2m Warranty 3y 5y    

What HDD is best for NAS?

What HDD is best for NAS?

What HDD is best for NAS?   Yes, this is a popular question. Especially when your NAS has a different number of bays or even bays size. The basic rules for NAS-compatible drives is as follows. 1-Bay and 2-Bay NAS             = You can use any drives you want. This can […]