Which harddrives for DS412+

[Giffel]

Hi,

I have decided to buy the DS412+ and want to put 4x3TB disks in, my question is which harddrives would you recommend? I will be using the DS412+ as a mediaserver/downloader.

[Flopper]

If you do a search here, you will find your question several times.

Everyone has an opinion/reason/preferece which honestly will not really help in yor choice I'm afraid, example viewtopic.php?f=26&t=51438

[myCloud]

These are the drives I'm using in my DS1512+. I've had no problems with them and they're very quiet. Originally, I was going to use four in a DS412+ in a RAID 5 for 8.2 TB total, but because they're not enterprise grade (costing 2.5 times as much), I went ahead and got the DS1512+ and used five in a RAID 6 for the same 8.2 TB total with two disk redundancy.

[Flopper]

Same here, I never get the enterprise version, I rather swap them for bigger ones 1 or 2 years later and still save money. I stick to WD however.

[Giffel]

I have been looking at the Western Digital AV-GP WD30EURS: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=150

What do you guys think about that?

[Flopper]

If they fit your needs, I would say: go

[Giffel]

If they fit your needs, I would say: go

And it is not a concern that it is only 5400RPM?

[Flopper]

'only' is relative, you probably will not even notice for you purposes. They will still be a lot faster than your downloader

[Giffel]

'only' is relative, you probably will not even notice for you purposes. They will still be a lot faster than your downloader

Allrigth, Thanks for your answers

If you don't mind me asking what modelnumber disks do you use yourself?

[Flopper]

8 * WD2002FYPS-02W3B