This lets me power them down properly when that happens.Īnd YES, I am the same from your XDA thread for the DirecTV Now/AT&T Now for Shield TV. I also have them all on a APC Battery backup for power outages. Hard drives and hardware can both die, I figured that keeping a single 'cluster' (2 drives/NAS) just in case the NAS quits, made more sense. This gives me enough room for my 1,600 movies (4 NAS boxes), one TV Shows, and and one Archive drive for documents, software, and such. I thought about getting a QNAP TS-451+ when they were on sale for $290, but decided to keep my current setup since I don't transcode anything via Plex, just stream with Kodi, and just go with a couple of new 8TB WD Red hard drives. add storage.' over time when I needed and could afford it. Again, ANY hard drive can fail, but you don't want to lose any data because of that.Ĭlick to expand.Thanks! And a Synology 918+ with those WD 10TB drives are MONSTER. I would go with any major brand made for NAS type storage and (if you can) a Raid 1 (mirror) set up.

Long term storage in a computer or NAS box, the 5,400 RPM drives run cooler and therefore (theoretically) should be more reliable. There is already a 6 GB/sec on the 5,400 and 7,200 RPM drives, so they are both the same on transfer speeds, it's the seek time that will be faster, which is better for a computer system drive accessing stuff in Windows. And even then it would be on the transcoding 'on the fly' with Plex on 4k stuff and even then, probably only see that inside a computer tower.

If you have your PLEX in a NAS, it will have to be a HIGH end NAS (powerful CPU) to make any difference on a 5,400 RPM drive vs a 7,200 RPM. I've only had 1 WD die and was warrantied by WD.Īs for speed, that depends. But that was several years ago and I've never used the IronWolf line, which is most likely WAY better than the ones I had from Seagate. Seagates had the highest failure rate, in my personal experience. I have settled in with all WD Reds in my 21TB, 5-NAS array (5 QNAP NAS boxes with a Raid 1 setup, so there is actually 42TB of raw storage). All drives can fail, and will, at some point.

I too have had different brands throughout the years WD, Hitachi, Seagate.

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