I have 4 WD Green mechanical hard drives of mixed sizes that are completely full totalling around 5TB. They are all over 10 years old so I would like to replace them with a single larger drive of at least 8TB, though ideally 10-12TB.
The drives are mostly used for movies, TV shows, amd music. All of the content can be replaced so I'm not too worried about backups, but it would be a huge pain to find, download, and organise it all again so I would like to buy two drives and put them in raid 1. This will at least protect me against drive failure which is probably the biggest threat to this data.
The problem I'm having is that desktop/consumer drives like the Seagate Barracuda and WD Blue seem to top out at 8TB and are SMR which I've read are not suitable for raid setups. Then there's the "gaming" drives like Seagate Firecuda and WD Black which are CMR but they are very expensive and I don't really need the extra speed. Finally there's the NAS and enterprise drives like the Seagate IronWolf and WD Red. I'm leaning towards getting a WD Red Plus but I keep reading they are extremely noisy and something you would want in a server room and not a desktop PC, especially once you go over 8TB. Is it something I should be concerned about?
I guess I'm asking what would be the best drives for a raid 1 setup around 8-12TB that aren't stupidly loud or expensive. I'm not too bothered about speed or anything like that.
The drives are mostly used for movies, TV shows, amd music. All of the content can be replaced so I'm not too worried about backups, but it would be a huge pain to find, download, and organise it all again so I would like to buy two drives and put them in raid 1. This will at least protect me against drive failure which is probably the biggest threat to this data.
The problem I'm having is that desktop/consumer drives like the Seagate Barracuda and WD Blue seem to top out at 8TB and are SMR which I've read are not suitable for raid setups. Then there's the "gaming" drives like Seagate Firecuda and WD Black which are CMR but they are very expensive and I don't really need the extra speed. Finally there's the NAS and enterprise drives like the Seagate IronWolf and WD Red. I'm leaning towards getting a WD Red Plus but I keep reading they are extremely noisy and something you would want in a server room and not a desktop PC, especially once you go over 8TB. Is it something I should be concerned about?
I guess I'm asking what would be the best drives for a raid 1 setup around 8-12TB that aren't stupidly loud or expensive. I'm not too bothered about speed or anything like that.