New hard drive

[Crashuk]

Looking at buying a new hard drive 4TB.  Any brands recomended or to stear clear of ?

It's for storage of films /TV stuff, I have an ssd with OS on.

I have a Zyxel NAS with 2 x 2TB in jbod which is getting on abit. So rather than replace Nas I was gonna use my PC to share over the home network.

The Nas is SMB v1 which is a security hole. I tried to create an NFS share but cannot get it working on the nas.

I intend to fit new 4TB hdd, move data from nas to new hdd then fit 2 hdd from nas into PC and retire Nas.

So Guys n Girls what do you recommend ?

[l0gic]

4Tb has dropped sub £100 lately.

I use bog standard desktop drives in my Windows "server" it's on 24x7 and I've yet to drop a drive.

As protection I do use Stablebit DrivePool to combine physical hard drives into one virtual drive and then mark my important files for duplication across the physical drives.

I take a chance on the big files, films TV and the like. I can always grab them again.

 

[Crashuk]

7 hours ago, l0gic said:

4Tb has dropped sub £100 lately.

I use bog standard desktop drives in my Windows "server" it's on 24x7 and I've yet to drop a drive.

As protection I do use Stablebit DrivePool to combine physical hard drives into one virtual drive and then mark my important files for duplication across the physical drives.

I take a chance on the big files, films TV and the like. I can always grab them again.

 

👍Cheers for that info. I never heard of Drive pool   ?? 

Looked into it and it seems impresive (apart from the paying for it bit lol). I do use the windows built in drive spanning tools tho.

Seems the hdd scanning funtion is one of the main reason people use it.

I'll have a play with the 4 500GB hdd's pulled from old sky boxes.

[l0gic]

Yeah, it's one of the things I thought worth paying for

I've been running it for years, rock solid!