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This evening my just over 10 year old Samsung 2TB drive just started clicking and is no longer showing up on my PC. I've not lost anything valuable on it and was shocked how long I have had it.
I'm looking at replacing it with a new drive somewhere in the region of 4-8TB capacity.
There are a hell of a lot of options since I last bought a HDD with lots of NAS rated ones etc. Before I only really paid attention to RPM, price and capacity. I've had so many different HDD failures over the years from most of the main brands.
My research is turning up all sorts of conflicting information. Plenty of people saying NAS drives are fine in a desktop machine, others saying not to use them (but unhelpfully not saying why). The consumer HDD at this capacity appear to be SMR drives which don't look ideal to use. Are there consumer drives that are CMR?
Are NAS drives louder? A 7200 RPM drive is likely louder than a 5400 RPM drive, but that's always been the case right?
I think I've narrowed it down to either a WD Red Pro which are 7200 RPM and CMR. Or the Seagate Ironwolf Pro which are also the same? Any reason I shouldn't get either of these and any feedback on why one would be preferable over the other please?
It will mostly be used for storage of RAW photos and 4k video footage. I might do some video editing using it so a faster drive would probably be better? Though I might offload whatever I'm working on to one of my SSDs and then just put the output onto this new HDD.
Power consumption and noise are somewhat of a consideration but not deal breakers.
Cheers!
I'm looking at replacing it with a new drive somewhere in the region of 4-8TB capacity.
There are a hell of a lot of options since I last bought a HDD with lots of NAS rated ones etc. Before I only really paid attention to RPM, price and capacity. I've had so many different HDD failures over the years from most of the main brands.
My research is turning up all sorts of conflicting information. Plenty of people saying NAS drives are fine in a desktop machine, others saying not to use them (but unhelpfully not saying why). The consumer HDD at this capacity appear to be SMR drives which don't look ideal to use. Are there consumer drives that are CMR?
Are NAS drives louder? A 7200 RPM drive is likely louder than a 5400 RPM drive, but that's always been the case right?
I think I've narrowed it down to either a WD Red Pro which are 7200 RPM and CMR. Or the Seagate Ironwolf Pro which are also the same? Any reason I shouldn't get either of these and any feedback on why one would be preferable over the other please?
It will mostly be used for storage of RAW photos and 4k video footage. I might do some video editing using it so a faster drive would probably be better? Though I might offload whatever I'm working on to one of my SSDs and then just put the output onto this new HDD.
Power consumption and noise are somewhat of a consideration but not deal breakers.
Cheers!