NAS Drives & Price/Capacity Sweet Spot?
NAS Drives & Price/Capacity Sweet Spot?
Author
Discussion

bitchstewie

Original Poster:

68,162 posts

240 months

Monday 24th August 2020
quotequote all
I need some drives for an 8 bay NAS that is storing (non-porn biggrin) archive data.

There's usually a sweet spot between price and capacity and right now I think it's between 10TB drives and maybe 12TB or 14TB.

It's been so long since I've purchased hard drives for a NAS that I'm a bit out of touch.

It'll be Synology SHRII.

Any suggestions please?

xeny

5,520 posts

108 months

Monday 24th August 2020
quotequote all
Hitachi, of whatever size is most sensible financially.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-driv...

Remember that SHRII takes forever to rebuild/expand, so leaving bays empty for future expansion means lots of anticipation of when you'll need the space.