One of my harddisks in BTRFS multi-disk backup array died. I didn't know, until I rebooted after system update. Fortunately, I had enough space to cover this failure. But, if another harddisk dies, then I will need to buy a new one. What is your recommendation for NAS harddisk, nowadays? It's been awhile since I shopped for a harddisk. Google recommends Seagate Ironwolf Pro, but I got burned by Seagate before, and this one that died is also Seagate.
Personally I like Seagate but I have other as well. But I use only STD drive they are so much faster. Tom On Saturday, September 19th, 2026 at 11:14 PM, William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
One of my harddisks in BTRFS multi-disk backup array died. I didn't know, until I rebooted after system update. Fortunately, I had enough space to cover this failure. But, if another harddisk dies, then I will need to buy a new one.
What is your recommendation for NAS harddisk, nowadays? It's been awhile since I shopped for a harddisk. Google recommends Seagate Ironwolf Pro, but I got burned by Seagate before, and this one that died is also Seagate.
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On 2026-09-19 23:13, William Park via Talk wrote:
One of my harddisks in BTRFS multi-disk backup array died. I didn't know, until I rebooted after system update. Fortunately, I had enough space to cover this failure. But, if another harddisk dies, then I will need to buy a new one.
What is your recommendation for NAS harddisk, nowadays? It's been awhile since I shopped for a harddisk. Google recommends Seagate Ironwolf Pro, but I got burned by Seagate before, and this one that died is also Seagate.
I personally have had good luck with segate over the years but if you checkout Backblaze you can get an idea of bulk drive reliability. Backblaze seems to like to generate quarterly reports on drive reliability. https://www.Backblaze.com/blog/Backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2026/ Their data is not presented in a way that presents the most->least reliable drives but from their stats it looks like segate is not the best. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || home: (905)513-7688 alvin@netvel.net ||
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