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Posted 1 August 2023
Seagate SkyHawk 4TB Surveillance Hard Drive 3.5" 5400RPM 256MB Cache
£3.49 ·
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Edit: someone in the comments dug up the model number and found that these are SMR drives, I thought previously that they were CMR drives. Apologies for the mistake.
These are CMR drives from Seagate, sold by Ebuyer. I'm buying some of these to use in a NAS, from what I've read it's not going to make a massive difference compared to Ironwolfs but I'm not 100% sure, feel free to let me know in the comments.
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Edited by HigherDimensio, 3 August 2023
10 Comments
sorted byI have in the pas logic buy cheap etc and sometimes it is works but majority times it is not
you need to look in to this 1 Warranty ; 2 Size ; 3 Power Efficiency
1 HDD most important warranty as they all fail soon or later all of them
More longer warranty the better buy if company x offering 5 Years and Seagate only 3 I will go with company X because extra 2 Years
2 Size buy biggest HDD you can ...it is Better to have 2 x 10 TB Raid Mirror then 4 x 4TB Raid 5 as for home Usage I think do not need to spin 4 HDD constant to gain TB it is lose energy and HDD wear on all 4 HDD so more chance one of HDD fail and need to replace sooner
3 Because it is for NAS but i assume it is home NAS so usage will be very minimal compare to Business NAS I want to have HDD were NAS can turn off the HDD then your power usage reduce by 10 W per HDD and it is money as they run 24HRS x 365 days = £ electricity price
My NAS with 4 HDD keep spinning 4 HDD and system usage 35-40W and I'm losing power as not using day time In logical i need to turn off the NAS but i do not like this idea that when I need i need to to go to NAS to turn on Push button as if I programme NAS time table off the is no way to turn on when timer is on
Where I have other 2 Bay " WD cloud " NAS because it is WD NAS it is turn off HDD and power around 5 W and can be access all the time
Has efficiency advantages though. You can use different size disks!
You only spin the disk that the data is on at the moment you are accessing it, so the others can spin down, saving power. Parity drives are only in use when parity is updated/used, so they are also spun down. Large power savings all around.