So this morning a NAS prompts me….

[Jan Janowski]

That a couple packages need upgrade.
Only one of 2 720+’s prompted.

Looking into the upgrade it’s for Petabyte storage!!! On a 720+ ???

Look further…… Oh! I have: show beta Software selected!!

I guess that proves that 720+ can go past 2x 16TB drives!!!

(Turned off ‘beta’!)

 

[Telos]

I told you there is no drive size limit.
C'mon Jan, crank up that peta-machine.

 

[Jan Janowski]

And here I am, waiting for a sale on 2x 8’s or 10’s!!

 

[Telos]

And here I am, waiting for a sale on 2x 8’s or 10’s!!

Just for you, I found this...

Western Digital 10TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, for $159.99 @Jan Janowski

 

[Jan Janowski]

Thanks. Same price I see for Ironwolf’s. Gotta few months.

 

[Gerard]

Thanks. Same price I see for Ironwolf’s. Gotta few months.

Really where? I checked as soon as I saw Telos’ post on WD. I feel that I lean more toward seagate ironwolfs. I’ve had two WD reds from around the 2018 era and I only got about a year and half out of both of them; they both ended up failing. My ironwolfs are going on 4 years strong.

 

[Jan Janowski]

I had less than stellar results with 2TB REDS. 2 plus one warranty drive died. I bought some 6TB 7200 Ironwolf’s (during the short time they made 7200 version) and they’ve been bullet proof since.
$159 is what B&H and Amazon is doing now. I’m trying to time my jump to running out of space. NAS Basic needs is for DVD/BR ISO, my data, video gear technical data, and security camera redundant storage. My timed script files keep camera data automatically in line, it’s primarily the ISO’s that grow as they are made.
(On Edit System: Once edit/DVD/BR OK’d all video & edit & authoring files are deleted, only ISO files remain, and get archived in redundant NAS’s. Edit system went from spinning Drive Raid 0 for Viideo/edit/authoring temporary fast storage to Raid0 SSD Storage ~ 6 years ago, freeing up 4x 1TB Barracuda’s, 2x now residing in experimental NAS 720-2).
Occasionally, as recently happened, I get to free up ISO space, which gives me more time to look for sales.
As long as I keep ahead of the two NAS’s remaining storage, I can keep kicking the replacement drive “can” down the road.
If a drive fails, with SHR, I order immediately, Update limping NAS one at a time, and gain a spare drive for other system - as both are 6TB Ironwolf’s.
At least—that’s the plan….

 

[Gerard]

$159 is what B&H and Amazon is doing no

Weird I’m seeing $199 for the 10 tb ironwolfs. 6 tb is 27% off for 109 on amazon

 

[Jan Janowski]

Yes.. 199 for 10 159 for 8.. 6 is installed on both now.
With luck, drives will hang in there... $ will fall to point where I can consider 4 drives, not 2, update both my main units with SHR, have 2 spares, and populate the experimental 720+ with 6's as SHR... and retire the 1Tb Barracuda's one more (Last) time!

Of Course, a drive failure throws a wrench in this plan, but, redundant data storage and SHR minimizes data loss...

 

[Gerard]

Yes.. 199 for 10 159 for 8.. 6 is installed on both now.

Ahhh when you had responded earlier “yea same price for iron wolf” I was under the impression you were referring to 10tb. Since telos had provided that price for WD’s at the 10tb size.

 

[Telos]

telos had provided that price for WD’s at the 10tb size.

Yes... it is still 159.99 USD for 10 TB Red Plus... a fine NAS drive.

 

[Coop777]

the WD Ultrastars (formerly HGST) are ROCK solid. I really wish I knew whatever happened to the Deskstar (NAS) driveline.