Disk replacement to rebuild raid

[snakefood]

Hi guys,

I've had a disk fail in my 2 drive nas so I need to replace one, but they were quite old disks.

The model listed in there is a ST300DM001 - 1ER166. Do I need to source the same exact model to rebuild the array, or can I add in any 3TB drive? Could I please get a recommendation of something appropriate?

Cheers

 

[snakefood]

Cheers for coming back to me, my nas is a netgear readynas. I don't think it's all that great a unit, but all I really do is download 1080p content to, and play locally from it. I think it uses some quirky ass netgear raid standard called x-raid...but I do believe x-raid allows for expansion, so you may well have a good point on buying a larger disk (guess that also confirms I don't require matching models )

I notice all of those nas specific drives listed are slower at 54-5900, is that not an issue? Historically I've always steered away from these, but I've also not had to buy many nas disks, so I could well be uneducated in this aspect.