NETGEAR RN31600-100NAS Drive Question

[HX1]

My question is about a new direction I am about to take my personal storage. I am about to purchase a NETGEAR RN31600-100NAS. This comes with a lot of options and this is probably more than I will need for awhile.. I am also using a NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 r8000 Router in conjunction to alleviate any network overload and congestion.

As you can see from the link it has 6 Bays and is capable of 24 TB of storage.. ^_^ Upgradable to 44 TB..

Thank goodness I didn't get the top of the line model.. :huh:

My question after looking around is what would be the best possible solution to buying the best drives for this unit.

I have been lead to believe that Samsung would be the best option, then Western Digital, Seagate.. in that order.

I am also open to buying good SSD's which all can be used in the same unit.. So looking for some advise in this area. I personally have seen HD failure from all of the above companies.. but just some input would be nice. I am about to buy the unit today.. I have to buy the drives next. I already have 2 - External HD's which can be installed.. but I am looking to replace these after they are replicated.

You all may find this funny but I still have to build my desktop too.. :mellow:

[The Owl]

you wont get Large Samsung mechanical drives any more although if possible that would have been my choice BUT if you look for large (4terabyte) Seagate with a spin rate of 5400 RPM those are made in what used to be the old Samsung factory which they sold to Seagate, when they (Samsung) pulled out of the mechanical drive Market they only make SSD Drives now, but the more expensive drives of the Seagate range (They make a NAS Drive Now) are IMHO probably the best out there.

FYI I have 18 Old Samsung Spinrite drives varying from 1 - 2 tera and 2 Seagate (one of which has been replaced under warranty) My FTP has 12 Mechanical drives which other than rebooting once a day never stop spinning. It also has 1 SSD for the C drive

[HX1]

I know where to get 2 TB 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 6 Gb/s Samsung drives.. a little high compared to others. but still in the package... Would that be what you would recommend then... ( I think I will look in SSD's however I had rather have those anyway.. )

[HX1]

you wont get Large Samsung mechanical drives any more although if possible that would have been my choice BUT if you look for large (4terabyte) Seagate with a spin rate of 5400 RPM those are made in what used to be the old Samsung factory which they sold to Seagate, when they (Samsung) pulled out of the mechanical drive Market they only make SSD Drives now, but the more expensive drives of the Seagate range (They make a NAS Drive Now) are IMHO probably the best out there.

FYI I have 18 Old Samsung Spinrite drives varying from 1 - 2 tera and 2 Seagate (one of which has been replaced under warranty) My FTP has 12 Mechanical drives which other than rebooting once a day never stop spinning. It also has 1 SSD for the C drive

I know where to get 2 TB 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 6 Gb/s Samsung drives.. a little high compared to others. but still in the package... Would that be what you would recommend then... ( I think I will look in SSD's however I had rather have those anyway.. )

I made a mistake there.. actually can only find the Spin-Rite Laptop drives..

I did find this however http://www.ebay.com/itm/391148595465?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Seems I had my thinking a little short of 24 TB and I will need 4 TB.. wondering what you think about this one.. Seems like a valid solution.

[The Owl]

the Seagate Enterprise range is probably the best on the market in the mechanical drives but obviously its reflected in the price tag.

Biggest SSD drive is a Terabyte (as far as I am aware) but are still very pricey but do your self a favour yes it will cost more but do not buy anything other than a Samsung Pro SSD they (Samsung) are that confident in them they have a 10 year warranty FYI I have two Pro drives 1 x 830 and 1 x 840 both 128Gb and a120 840 basic (only for my bedside machine) whne I am having a bad day.

[HX1]

Yeah.. I looked at the SSD's too.. a little out of my price range for now coming in at around $1,000 - $4,000... I might get one or two someday.. but for now.. the Enterprise NAS HD is probably what I will be getting.. I have gotten one so far and I plan to buy one at a time.. by the time I am finished I will have $1,400.00 in HD installed... glad I got the NAS for cheap...

I like the look of the specs presented for the NAS HD as well.. 1 Million something operating hours... raid rebuild.. some nice options.

Thx BTW for your helpful advice.. :)

[The Owl]

all a case of how big a drive you need for your OS and programs I have three machines with 128 Samsung Pro's in and 1 with a 120 basic Samsung OK the ones that do the work have many other drives in fact my FTP has 14 including the C drive SSD totalling for the 13 storage drives 34 terabytes (in DOS) just over 29 in Windows, all running on a AMD 1100T (6 x 3,3 Ghz) with 8Gb of ram

[HX1]

How complicated is switching from X-Raid to Flex Raid? I would like to keep one raid between two and then have separate volumes... any experience with this.. ( I have to go look up LUN.. :P )

I found out an interesting fact about my NAS.. I thought I had a size restriction with this thing but I can load any size drive into it. As drive sizes increase so will my limit... Was worried when I bought a 5TB drive.. it seems that most of the 4TB drives are gone.. or limited availability.. I wound up getting larger drives for less.. Still have four bays to go... Wondering about some of the options available though.. Like RAID Rebuild... and drive life.. Like with choosing drives that do not state specifically for Enterprise NAS.. Sort of what I was trusting.