WD Red 2TB 3.5 Inch NAS Internal Hard Drive - 5400 RPM - WD20EFRX

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I had arguments where someone in the company had a PC from a brand 20 years ago in their old company. In meetings ANYTIME that brand comes up the person that would call tech support for the smallest problem with their work PC, will keep telling you that THEY had a problem with that brand and that they’re basicly an expert now on that brand and that there is no way the company should go with that brand, because THEY CAN TELL YOU how bad their products are. When I originally set it up, it had two drives in it. It was kind of noisy but no more than I expected. When I added a third drive, the noise and amount of disc access was much greater than it had been. https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=products&model=DS723%2B&category=hdds_no_ssd_trim I understand that they dont add 20TB HDDs on the list if they dont have have their own supported HDDs go up to 20TB. In a company meeting someone might ask “could we go for 20? a simple NO is better than “well we could, but it’s not 100% supported” and then the whole mess would come up… in the end the boss would say “this is to complicated… lets go with another comapny” (welcome to corporate world). In the end it is mainly about certificates that you can hold up and say “this paper says it’s not my fault”.

BTW, also worth noting, the weight of the NAS might become significantly higher when you are using more drives (noticeable after 8x drives IMHO) Word of advice: buy as many drives as can fit in your NAS as down the line by the time you want to buy additional drives, the manufacturer may have moved-on to newer models..

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I assume the home/office/prosumer market is all-but free-riding on their megala-enterprise/corporate market success.

But more drives also means more power-use as you already indicated and also more heat. (more cooling might be needed) PS: Synology HDD compatibility includes many more/other !NONE Synology HDDs! especially on the newer NAS models There is most certainly a clear design choice here to mirror that of the existing regular-class server drives on the market right now. The Synology HAT 3300+ series has been reported several times, not just here on the blog, to be built using Seagate Iron Wolf drive media with specific Synology firmware on board. Arriving with 180-terabyte annual workloads, 5400rpm, 256-megabyte cache, arriving in a CMR architecture and air-sealed – the specifications we see here are all quite standard. The 12TB benefits from an increased RPM and helium sealing, as per most 12 TB drives in the market, but apart from that the Synology Plus hard drive series are going to run quieter than most pro or enterprise-class drives, as well as have a slightly lower power consumption, but are also going to have a slight performance decrease than that of the HAT5300 and HAT3300. But that is only going to be of significance in larger RAID configurations realistically. Rotation Speed – This indicates how fast the platters spin, enabling the arm/actuator to locate and write data magnetically.I’m thinking about getting a DS423+ (home media server) and by doing my research i found this great channel and learned a lot about the NAS world. Then what is the appropiate rule to build a NAS. It’s pretty simple actually… you build it with the capacity you’ll need. A good rule of thumb is aggregate all your current storage cap in your house and multiply by 2 (chances are it took you years to fill them up). Most people without NAS, they won’t reach 14TB. Magnetic Recording – This refers to how data is stored on the platters. As of 2023/2024, there are several prevalent types: SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording), PMR/CMR (Perpendicular/Conventional Magnetic Recording), EAMR (Energy Assisted Magnetic Recording), and HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording). Each type has its pros and cons, but PMR/CMR remains the most popular for NAS hard drives.

You may feel SATA and SAS is mature tech and there should be no compatibility problems, but there are and there will be more. I’ve worked with (from memory) Adaptec, Areca, Raidcore, 3Ware and LSI. Sometimes the compatibility problems are blatantly obvious, but sometimes they are a creeping problem that takes time to develop, and they don’t get better with time. Sometimes a firmware upgrade of the drives or the controller can help, but there’s no guarantee that either is coming if you start out with incompatible hardware. Bigger means less power draw, less vibrations and less potential heat, less physical space used and more capacity.As someone who works in industrial managment and does contracts sometimes I would like to point out that this whole drama is mostly for legal reasons? Certainly one of the most expensive NAS HDDs out there, but provides a very good level of storage, performance, durability and overall is a very dependable drive for SMB users (Small/Medium Business) that want a drive they can rely on. I hope you will be able and willing to answer my question. I have a DS218+ with 2 8TB seagate iron wolf harddrives. I want to have an upgrade so I’m buying a DS420+ nas and 2 18TB seagate iron wolf harddrives. My plan is to replace my 2bay synology to the new 4bay synology and I want to know if I can just put the 2 8TB drives into the new synology and then also add the 2 new 18TB drive in bay 3 and 4.. Recently I upgraded to 8GB of RAM and added a fourth drive. The first thing I noticed was that the overall noise is far less than it was with three drives and almost certainly lower than it was with two drives. In fact, it’s got to the point where I rarely hear it.