I'm on the faculty at Boston University in the computer science department, where I teach software engineering, intro courses, and application architecture and development. Also a bit of a Deadhead.
Just a quick point on Western Digital...I haven't used their pre-built cloud-in-a-box solutions, however I do use and swear by their WD-Red line of NAS hard drives (I use them in my own cloud server, which runs CentOS). They are top quality at a good price; some large cloud providers agree and use them also. I've had very bad experiences with both Seagate and Hitachi drives in the past.
I'm on the faculty at Boston University in the computer science department, where I teach software engineering, intro courses, and application architecture and development. Also a bit of a Deadhead.
Similar experience here! All my Seagate drives failed (some lasted longer than others, but still), but I have a WD drive that outlasted 3 or so other Seagate drives.
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Just a quick point on Western Digital...I haven't used their pre-built cloud-in-a-box solutions, however I do use and swear by their WD-Red line of NAS hard drives (I use them in my own cloud server, which runs CentOS). They are top quality at a good price; some large cloud providers agree and use them also. I've had very bad experiences with both Seagate and Hitachi drives in the past.
That's very fair. I should have specified their My Cloud product as I haven't used any others.
Do you have any experience with Synology?
I build my own NAS, and haven't used the Synology boxes, but I have consistently read good things about them. They just seem a little pricy to me.
Similar experience here! All my Seagate drives failed (some lasted longer than others, but still), but I have a WD drive that outlasted 3 or so other Seagate drives.