I am looking at
Western Digital WD Ultrastar DC HC550 16TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200RPM 3.5-Inch Data Center HDD (WUH721816ALE6L4)



or a

WD HGST 18TB 512MB 7200RPM SATA Ultra 512E SE NP Storage DEVIC



This post has been edited by fujkenasai: Aug 14 2021, 05:06 PM

starting mine chia?

no more like moving my pics vids lecture back ups around

I ban HGST products for voiding my warranty due to adhesive coming out of HDD. Since now its under WD, their HDDs are banned as well.

I only trust Seagate now. Their warranty service is top notch. Country mile faster than WD.

ok...

for all my years with WD i have no issues touch wood. used to be seagate

but for that price only WD gives such affordability

I suggest you get identical hdd just for raid 5, or for folder synchronization.
imagine suddenly 18TB suddenly kaput out of the blue, data recovery gonna cost a kidney.

Do 3-2-1 backup practice to secure your data.

the 18 TB is just a back up and other unimportant downloads

A Wd caviar black (enterprise hdd), 2tb

rm230, can consider la

now, economy not good

Be thrifty a bit..

I have not used these WD drives, but I have been using 4x 16TB Seagate Ironwolf in RAID-5 in my Synology NAS since the early 2020. No issues so far. Happy with their performance. I plan to add more of the same drives at a later date.

Beware of ordering internationally though, the drives tend to get damaged during shipping. I had 3 out of 4 that were shipped international to be DOA, and had to be returned for a refund (from Amazon USA, another seller in Japan). Those that were shipped to me when I was in the US and hand carried back, were fine. So definitely damaged during international shipping.

i see thanks for the advice on international purchase.

so where did u get ur 16TB Ironwolf?

Amazon USA and also a seller on Lazada (shipped from Japan).

link pls

Amazon and Lazada - you should know the sites already. As for the particular items links, just search on the sites. Sellers, models and stock change all the time.

thanks

Invest in RAID.

Which raid to choose for this hdd