Looking for new HDD Suggestions

[VinnyHaw]

Hello, 

So I have a pool of 5 hdd's. They're all 12 TB WD Red Plus drives. The problem is... is that WD is all out of drives for the year. All sold out. So the drives that are currently available have all gone up in price.

 

So I'm looking for as comparative as possible drives as I can get my hands on. Any suggestions? Thank you

[PsychoWards]

Hey, you can basically look at any NAS or Server/Entreprise HDD

WD Red Pro

Seagate Ironwolf (Pro) 

Seagate Exos

Etc... 

However they have all exploded in costs unfortunately. Looking at refurbished entrepris drives might also be a good alternative. 

[VinnyHaw]

2 hours ago, PsychoWards said:

Hey, you can basically look at any NAS or Server/Entreprise HDD

WD Red Pro

Seagate Ironwolf (Pro) 

Seagate Exos

Etc... 

However they have all exploded in costs unfortunately. Looking at refurbished entrepris drives might also be a good alternative. 

I was looking at the Ironwolf pro as an alternative, but yeah that's gone up in price as well. Think I've landed on the Toshiba n300 pro. Their prices seem to be stable (for the time being)

[Mindless999]

Just keep in mind things like cache-size, RPM, etc. The speed of the "raid"-set can be impacted (negatively) if it's not equal or higher than the current ones. So keep that in mind while trying to look for something. Unless you *really* need to expand it with 1 disk, maybe wait out until prices are going back down?