NAS Drive

markwilliams82 · 16 Nov 2015 at 20:54

I'm after two new HDD's for a NAS unit (DNS-320L)

I was after either 3TB or 4TB per drive and was looking at the WD Red drives.
How do these rate and are there any alternatives?

Redgie · 17 Nov 2015 at 07:42

The reds rate pretty highly, but assuming you meant 3 or 4TB and not 3 or 4GB you may want to look a little bigger. Going by OcUK's prices:

3TB WD Red is £95, or £31.66 per TB
4TB WD Red is £126, or £31.50 per TB
5TB WD Red is £175, or £35 per TB
6TB WD Red is £180, or £30 per TB

As you can see, 6TBs represent the best value for money (if your NAS can accommodate them).

markwilliams82 · 17 Nov 2015 at 08:17

Oops, yeah TB was what I meant

Based on those prices, if I added a single 6TB now and then looked to add a second later down the line; how easy can this be done or how would it effect the setup of the NAS?

malcolm · 17 Nov 2015 at 16:35

I have a DNS 320L and I don't think it supports actively rebuilding a single drive to a raid array.

You can create a new volume on a second disc, but if you wanted to, say, add the second drive and convert to a raid 1 array to provide some security, you would have to export the data, reformat both drives and then restore the data.

Craig321 · 17 Nov 2015 at 16:38

Another vote for WD Red here.