The WD Red drives are expressly for NAS usage. Also, I'm aware of the slow redistribution of data. Generally there's only 0-2 connections on the NAS I have now, I just want more room. It's mostly BD/DVD rips, so if it dies, I can recover, it just takes a while. Reduced performance for a few days or a week isn't a huge deal for me.
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I wouldn't use those 8Tb shingle drives for a NAS. In fact, that use is specifically mentioned as being not under warranty if I remember correctly.
Also, if (when) a drive fails and you have to resilver 8Tb of data on one of those drives, the slow write speed will kill you.
The WD Red drives are expressly for NAS usage. Also, I'm aware of the slow redistribution of data. Generally there's only 0-2 connections on the NAS I have now, I just want more room. It's mostly BD/DVD rips, so if it dies, I can recover, it just takes a while. Reduced performance for a few days or a week isn't a huge deal for me.
> The WD Red drives are expressly for NAS usage.
Oh, I was thinking about the cheaper Seagate "Archive" drives which have really slow write speed because of that shingled technology.
> Reduced performance for a few days or a week isn't a huge deal for me.
It could be a huge deal when another drive fails during that week while the array is rebuilding. But if you have more hot spares it's no big deal.