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Why wouldn't you get the Ironwolf line for NAS drives? They're made for it and also affordable CMR drives.

Also question for data hoarders out here: Is HAMR viable for home NAS? I know SMR isn't because re-slivering or rebuilding is prohibitively slow, but I don't understand the HAMR tradeoffs

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At least here in the UK, the enterprise drives are often way cheaper than the NAS drives. They are in theory louder, but in practice as long as you have them in a reasonable case the difference isn't noticable, in my experience.

I have a 10TB exos at home in a silent case with foam, and I can hear the drive from downstairs when it’s transfering data. It’s really loud, I will avoid them in the future.

The Ironwolf Pro 16TB (which is around the sweet spot today in $/tb) is literally only $20 cheaper than the Exos X16. At that point why bother? Just buy the enterprise drive with all of the reliability features.

Exactly. I’ve got a stack for X16s in FreeNAS fronted with tons of NVMe. Prices are good for building a high perf home SAN.

Power usage.. we just won’t measure that part…

Just getting the five year warranty is worth that little extra

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