Over the years I've used a mix of Seagate and Western Digital drives--pricing being the main factor when deciding which drives to run in a given build at the time of putting the system together. For this specific build (UNRAID NAS), Seagate was a clear winner.
For the build, UNRAID was selected as it serves dual purposes--both as a NAS and a hypervisor for Virtual Machines and Docker containers; additionally, setting up bonded 10Gbit links is pretty seamless with near-zero configuration.
For the parts:
- MSI Godlike MEG x570
- AMD 3900x (12 core / 24 threads)
- 128GB Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX (OC'ed to 3200MHz)
- 16x 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD's
- 8x 8TB Seagate IronWolf HDD's
- 2x Intel 10Gbit Ethernet Adapters (bonded)
- MegaRaid 9305-24i HBA (connecting all 24x disks)
- Radeon VII GPU
All Seagate IronWolf drives were verified for warranty and came back as expected (full warranty). This was a bit of a risk as I've seen a number of stories where OEM drives are being sent in addition to drives that were barely inside of the warranty period--glad to confirm that these were not.
With the build live, the Seagate drives are working great and are already 20% filled. They've been extremely reliable and fast (for standard HDD's) and I'll be looking to Seagate as I begin planning to expand the storage in the coming months.
| Hard Drive | 8 TB Mechanical Hard Disk |
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