Which 4TB drives to go in a new XPEnology setup??

[StevieP]

I've currently got a Synology DS213 with 2 x 2TB WD Red drives in there and I'm looking at setting up a Microserver running XPEnology with 2 x 4TB drives in RAID1 (or the Synology "Hybrid-Raid" anyway - not sure what the difference is to be honest!)

Anyway, when I set my original NAS up, the WD Red's were I think the only NAS-centric drives available whereas now Seagate and Toshiba seem to offer them to suit now too!

Is there much between these in terms of reliability and performance??

 

[StevieP]

Go big ... go for 6tb/8tb .. its the age of 4k/8k

Yeah I guess you are right, after all I never thought I'd fill my 2TB drives and here I am running out of space!

WD reds are the most reliable by far

Never had a problem with my Red's but have you had actual experience of the Seagate drives for example failing?

 

[StevieP]

BTW I'm just thinking of giving up my xpenology setup ...

Mind if I ask why??