Thank you for your in-depth review. I recently upgraded to the RS2421+ and was planning to move my 8TB WD Red Pros over to the new NAS. I ended up getting the 16TBs HAT5300 and restored via Hyper Backup. Disk access noise and temps are way lower in my new setup.

The way videos start have a great first impression on viewers. The first ten seconds were funny and the intro wasn’t an hour long. Quick animations. And within the first 30 seconds we knew exactly what the video was about and the features being compared. This video was very well made and am glad it came up in search results.

Thanks for the great overview! Very helpful before I buy my first ever NAS array.

Hi there, I'm a big fan of your content. Thanks for all your hard work! I wanted to suggest that when you make comparisons, would you be able to add text to the video labelling which product that you are currently testing? It would really help out. Thanks!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS, This helped me so much ! This is an event trying to find the right product for the synology and I just used your links ! Thanks again

Thanks for all the useful information! This was all Greek to me but I am beginning to understand thanks to you… i’m almost where I can make some good decisions… I appreciate your hard work

I would like to see all the drives tested in the same bay because the acoustic characteristic of the NAS is different in each bay. Awesome video and thanks for all the knowledge! :)

And your videos keep getting better and better.

Great review (or comparison)! Thank you for that :)

Great in-depth review! Sub earned!

I'd love to see somebody review the Toshiba Enterprise Capacity MG Line, especially the 16TB drive which sounds like an amazing deal for teh price.

This was a great in-depth comparison. Thank you for putting so much effort into it; I can't help thinking it must have taken a long time to put this together. I was surprised and pleased to hear that the Synology drives are actually built to a higher level of quality (in some respects) than their competitors. At first when this range was announced, a lot of people just assumed (reasonably) that it was a vendor lock-in effort with no real benefit for end-users. Maybe I misunderstood, but would the Synology drives still be markedly superior in hardware even without the custom firmware integration? If so, I wonder if we'll see them ever make an effort at competing more directly with WD and Seagate with a new line that isn't meant to work specifically with their own NAS devices. I've got a QNAP TS-253D with a pair of WD Gold 14 TB in RAID1; once I realized I wanted to buy such large drives, I wanted reliability, and I've had good luck with used 4TB Golds in the past. (I'm using these for backup in my home office.) I found the 14TB ones brand new on eBay Canada marked down almost 50 percent since they were getting resold by someone who bought too many or something. They were less expensive than buying an equivalent pair of Red Pros from Amazon would have been. :) I'm a big fan of the Golds' audio profile. They're not quiet, but it's a lower-pitched tone, and not at all obnoxious when there's just 2 of them.

I've always used WD drives at home: Velociraptors for OS boot drives, and WD Red drives for mass storage of user data. I'm aware that there's currently a controversy around WD Red drives, but that's an issue with the health monitoring software recommending people replace their drives too soon and not the drive hardware which is rock solid.

very good info & neat video

I really apriciate the warranty handling of WD. I using WD Red for a very long time and I have no complains. Thank you for this interesting review. The noise those drives can produce are pretty shocking 🙉

14:30 I agree with this. SSDs specifically will have issues with disconnecting if they don’t match the compatibility on NAS systems. Qnap is a good idea. They are a pain if they don’t match compatibility list. If you want piece of mind always buy the drives from the NAS manufacturer. Synology can’t come back and say the issues you’re having are related to drive compatibility, versions, etc.

I put two Seagate Exos 16TB drives into my NAS. They run cool but they are really crunchy for noise. No spin or whine noise, but lots of head movement clicking and crunching. I don't leave my NAS running 24:7, it's used only for another system backup level, so I don't have to put up with the noise all day long. I normally purchase WD drives, but these Seagate Exos drives are priced right in Canada. $23 CAD per TB.

Its 2023 here now and this is the first time I've even heard that synology have a range of drives. I've just put a 22Tb WD Pro into my NAS and i think I'm going to pair it in a Raid 1 with a Seagate 22Tb drive. I've steered clear of Seagate for over 25 years since my Amiga days but it seems they have got a lot better.

another excellent informative course.

Well, thanks for this. Makes me feel better about the 2x14TB WD Red Pros I just bought for my Terramaster F x23 NAS. Now I just need to decide if I want the 2 or 4 bay system...

I used to despise Seagate drives; I've had very back luck with their consumer drivers for many years. Working professionally with them they had high failure rates in our workplace when compared to other brands. However, Seagate Ironwolf Pros on the other hand seem to be made completely differently as they've been just as rock solid as WD Reds. HGST drives are still king when it comes to reliability but modern WD Reds and IW Pros are extremely good also.

As someone who just went through the pain and suffering of buying drives for my little budget truenas server at home so I can upgrade from my 2tb drives that are who knows how old this was a good watch. 8 12tb's isn't cheap by any means, specially for a home lab.

Thanks for the in-depth look into these three drives. I do like the Firmware update ability of the Synology drives when using a Synology NAS but I am not sure the extra cost is worth it? I am using a Synology DS-1520+ NAS with five Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 4 TB drives. That is all that was available when I purchased them back in June 2021. I like the data recovery and price point of the Seagate IWP. At the time the Seagate IWP 4TB drives were $139 each. The Synology HAT5300 4TB is currently $199! I can get the Seagate IWP 16TB for around $250 each now. That is an additional 12TB for only $50 more each. They all have a five-year warranty but it does come down to reliability and not having to use that warranty that counts. I am not sure if the extra cost of the Synology is worth it but your video did help.

Hi, Thanks for another useful and interesting vid and congrats on avoiding HDD dominoes. A tiny observation: USP is _Unique_ Selling Point (or Proposition).

Great info - thank you! Regarding cache drives that would go with a quad-drive 16TB setup for the Synology DS920+, is there any performance value in going with similar manufacturers? My own research shows Seagate 2TB NVMe Gen4 SSD is very pricey compared to something like Samsung. Any advice on the topic very much appreciated!

I bought my DS918+ late 2017, I installed 4 Seagate IronWolf 4Tb drives, the unit is on constantly from 6am till midnight, it has all my movie and TV series collection, all photos and videos that are uploaded daily from our connected phones, along with work files and other documents, apart from a dust and vaccume of the Synology every 2 months I have had zero issues at all, in fact all drives are still reporting 100% perfect state, so from my experience I would not hesitate to get these drives again, I did have WD Reds in an earlier Synology unit and unfortunately they did fail after 2 years.

If you knock over a drive you can just send it to Linus so he can knock it over again in his next video...

Running WD Gold and some Ironwolf Pro. Both good so far.

I just ordered the Wolf Pro, 18TB. The price on Newegg was $299 minus a $9 coupon, BUT I went with Amazon for $299. I think Amazon delivery will be more conscientious. IOW I don't want someone tossing it on my porch, which Amazon never does. Respectfully, right now on Newegg, it says the MTBF on the Wolf pro, 18 TB is 2,5 Million hours also. I have LOVED my two ten TB regular, non-pro, Ironwolfs. very quiet, as fast as a hard drive gets, etc.

The Seagates are definitely louder than the WD red pro. I had a pair of them in my DS214+ and they made the whole case vibrate so badly it would kick out harmonics and I would have to tap it to stop the case from vibrating. Was so glad to finally replace them again with the WD red pros, way quieter...

With Synology refusing to update their HDD compatibility list trying to punt their own, can you maintain a list of drives you used on Synology to give us a sense of what works? Especially the bigger 18 and 20TB drives.

Over the years I used WD Red, Seagate Ironwolf and Exos. Over the years I only had issues with WD RED, failing long before their expected end of life which resulted in a support neighmare to get them replaced and have the replacement HDDs dead as well. Since around 2 years I use seagate Exos only. My Qnap TS-653D is equipped with 6x 18TB Exos running 24/7 . Nothing, zero issues at all. Will never buy anything else.

A year ago I've shucked 2 14TB Seagate Backup Plus. Got Ironwolf PRO and Exos. Exos is slightly faster. Both nicely produce crunching noise while work. "Solution" was to use SSD M2 cache in QNAP. Now I hear fan more often ;) Much better is 2.5" SSD. Anyway. Drives so far reliable and affordable. Skipped WD due to SMR trash.

Thank you 🙂

please give more detail about NAS firmware vs standard 'desktop firmware. thank you

For me it's either WD Gold or Seagate Exos. I've had great luck with both so I shop based on price, which is an vary significantly at times.

Thanks

I just returned the 8 T hard drive because I saw your video. What NAS would you reccomend that are solid state because maybe theu are better? I was choked bc i selected SSD and they sent me a HD model . Im returning the WD My Cloud Ultra EX2 Ultra 8T. Would love a long term quality reccomendation. Thank you so much

I'm genuinely surprised that Seagate is infamous for faulty drives as my experience was quite the opposite. I was using WD drives before and I've had three 2TB HDD Desktop drives die on me. Most of my experience with Seagate had been on their portable drives and they had been excellent. So when I brought my first NAS last December, I only considered the IronWolf drives.

Need more space. I have DS920+ 4x4TB on Raid 5 that is 90% full. I think I should have gone SHR. What is the best way upgrade to 4x16TB? I also bought a DS220j for backups. Do you have a video on how to upgrade?

It sounded to me like thos noise tests had a lot of rattle coming from the drive sled itself as it vibrated, so perhaps not the most accurate method of testing. Also, seeing some of the other comments here regarding reliability of WD and Seagate drives. My personal experience, certainly during the 90's when involved in building PC solutions, was that Seagate drives, or SeaCrate as we used to call them, suffered far more failures than the WD Medallist drives we used back then. I haven't touched an internal Seagate drive until just having purchased a Seagate IronWolf 8Tb 7,200 rpm drive for my system. It was by far the best price for a drive of its class, but I do find it much noisier than my WD Reds.

Good vid m8.

I’ve had a 4TB WD black from 2016. And finally got an upgrade to 16TB IronWolf drive. And I was expecting to be louder alittle. But I was surprised how quiet the seagate is compared to my old WD black.

Great review but the noise comparison is not quite what I experienced with a DS224+/Seagate Ironwolf pro 16tb. I find this setup quiet under load.

After the WD Red. CMR/SMR fun I have moved to the Toshiba N300 NASA’s Drives and I Have found them very cost effective and reliable however they are a bit more noticeable Noise wise if pushed hard but not overly so. I never see you mentioning the Toshiba drives. Do you dislike them is there a issue I am unaware of?

I find that my two WD Red drives run at different temperatures. One I’d 8 degrees hotter when idle. Which raises the question of which NAS drives run coolest ? Certainly my two Toshiba drives run considerably cooler that the WD for instance. What are Iron wolf like for temperature?

Great information in this video! I was a bit sad that there wasn't an "I hate seagulls" moment.

I'm thinking of buying an 8 Bay QNAP Nas for my small home based business, that noise 24 hrs a day would drive me nuts. I had no idea it was that loud. That alone kind of deters me to buy a NAS to begin with. Why are they so much louder than the HDs one has in a regular PC? And this noise is for 1 drive, an 8 bay drive would be loud as a machine saw, how do you deal with this issue?

Did you compare heat and power consumption?

I do love you opener ;-)

I still have a bad taste in my mouth from WD sticking SMR drives in the red series... Puzzled me for ages why my NAS suddenly tanked it's performance.

So what is the quietest drive for NAS? For me sleeping in the same room as old IronWolf drives (like 6 or 8TB) was impossible :/

Thank you. I think you mean typical not atypical

Thanks. Just to mention USP means Unique Selling Proposition. You say „Universal … Point“ 😊.

wd red pro seems rated at 550tb/2.5M hours too, is this new or are you looking at the red plus ?

I have a QNAP TVS-663 6-bay NAS which is currently running a mix of 2TB and 3TB drives, Seagate Barracuda and WD Red Plus. The NAS sits on my desk in my home office and the noisiest part of the NAS are the fans, which are really quite intrusive (my iPhone using DecibelX records ~46db at a distance of 30cm from the from of the NAS). Your comparison test of these three drives make it sound like the NAS has been turned in to a blender - there's no way I could tolerate that level and type of sound so close to me. My first step is to replace the fans with Noctua units and then (because I need more storage capacity) to upgrade the drives. Although the SMART scores for each of the 6 drives is "Good" the granular data (i.e. "Raw_Read_Error_Rate") for the WD drives is massively better than for the Seagate units. I appreciate that Red Plus and Barracuda may be different class of drives but it looks like I'll be opting for WD Red Plus drives across the board this time.

Sitting on multiple Synology groups and all of them convinced me that I was an idiot using any of those as the best option is to scavenge 14TB drives from WD Elements.

Have you tried sticky tape to secure the drives? 🙂

Great and informative as usual, but please, please, please....... USP means "unique" not universal selling point! Sorry, I'm austic, lol!!

what phone are you using?

What about that noise every 5 sec wd red has? do the other ones have it also?

My Reds have been solid for 10 years now.

Is there any real difference in energy consumption between the drives?

For me, the choices are really red plus vs wd gold vs synology. Seagate was enterprise choice from 1990-2010 but they screwed over customers heavily in the last 15yrs. WD used to be a lower end consumer company, but the WD gold and red drives have proved they are as good as any other company and their failure rate and support are better. Toshiba drives are the enterprise generic rebranded vendor drive...even dell would relabel them. The regular firmware update prove themselves in the long term. But, whoever rebrands the drive is responsible for support and replacing failed drives. Im not sure how good synology performs here. I think for low noise system, get red plus. For enterprise, get synology. For small business...WD gold might be easiest to work with, but those drives are loud.

UltraStar Helios drives are the only mass storage drive I use.

USP typically means Unique Selling Points (not Universal Selling Points) - apart from that, good stuff ;-)

ok I have an 8 drive 10g Synology NAS waiting to buy drives for it. Going to be in my upper shelf coat closet as my "data closet" in my home. I don't want it to sound like 10 popcorn pots on steroids... What's the cheapest 15TB+ SSD drives I can get?

Shopping around you get the Toshiba drives much cheaper than the Synology branded. I got 16TB Toshiba MG CMR drives at just over £250. Been running Toshiba 3TB drives in my old NAS for years. Replaced Seagate ST3000DM001s that kept dying and will never buy Seagate again.

I bought an External HDD WD Elements Desktop 8TB, 3.5" to store data, i.e. video files in general, does anyone have an idea if they are good and what exactly I should do to test it before I throw files on it that can no longer be replaced if the HDD - breaks down from the beginning due to manufacturing defects or due to defects caused by improper handling during transport.

Next time would you kindly include WD Ultrastar?

I have 4 10tb iron wolf 🐺 in my synology with 2 ssd × 256 name for cache & I can't tell when the server is on ..super quiet..ot use it for plex ...I also have a qnap tvs- x73e am currently not useing my plans is one day in the future when these 20tb cost about $200 fill all 8bays an migrate over to it & use the 4bay synology for torrents, cam system an some vm.

This is great video but not good reasons to buy one over another except for warranty. So with that being said have backup always. Don’t know to many people going put that much pressure on drive. Just buy what’s in your budget. The noise won’t be louder than any other device in your home or office. Whoever got best deal getting my money because whatever you buy going to be playing hit and miss game.

I use 16TB WD Gold drives in my Synology DS920+. As far as I know, those are industrial level drives, suitable for NAS as well. I would be interested how WD Gold compare to WD Red Pro?

Excellent video. I'm gonna stay with Seagate. :)

And what about a reed and whrite speed test?

It's surprising how much the prices have dropped in the US. Just got the WD Red Pro 20TB for $210.

I have recently purchased 2x WD Red Plus 4TB from Amazon UK - both were faulty. Reading Amazon reviews I was not the first one ;-(

Hi bro, isn't Toshiba's N300 line a good one either? I'm between Toshiba (7200 NAS) and Seagate (5400 NAS) media. Which do you recommend in terms of performance?

I'm new to all of this - I have 72TB of external drives (attached) another 12TB running wild... Basically I run a PC tower and keep plugging stuff in - I'm guessing I am doing that wrong? Can someone point me at a video to tell me how to do it right? I don't share, so wifi etc isn't an issue.

It's entertaining to see all the "Seagate is crap, because I had several Seagate drives that failed x years ago." I'm not saying you're all wrong, but it's still fun. And it's funny because Seagate is one of the oldest HDD manufacturers that's still in business. They survived where Conner, Maxtor, Imprimis, Priam, Micropolis, Quantum and all the other manufacturers who are no longer with us failed. They might not always have the best products, but they are generally "Good Enough". They sure has had their share of lemons. I remember a series of, I think it was either 120 MB or 210 MB drives, from Seagate that had almost 100% failure rate within two years. But then there were similar duds from just about every manufacturer at some time. Right now Toshiba HDD's are all the rage. A few years back it was HGST. Fun thing is HGST was formed from the old IBM disk drive division which was sold to Hitachi. For a long time IBM HDD's were considered to standard to which all others were compared. Then they released the Deskstar 75GXP... This drive was plagued with reliability issues and it got so bad that it became almost impossible to sell a HDD made by IBM. It didn't matter that they redesigned the drives and made really good drives. The name was tarnished by the Deskstar 75GPX, or the DeathStar as it was popularly called. IBM eventually gave up and sold it all to Hitachi who rebranded the products as HGST, and soon they had managed to scrub the 75GXP from most peoples memory. Hitachi actually managed to sell a lot of drives. But they didn't do as well as they wanted and so they sold the business to Western Digital. Seagate has also been buying. Not so long ago... Actually it's 12 years, but who's counting? Well they bought the Samsung HDD business. Strange, it feels like it was yesterday. My point is that Seagate would not be here today if their drives were as bad as a lot of people want to make them out to be. They have had lemons, but then so have all the other manufacturers. Those that survived are the ones that were able to fix the problems they had and come back with better drives. Oh and I want you to think a bit about the "Cheap drives are crappy drives" idea. It doesn't compute! This was something a WD engineer clued me in on. We were talking storage drives for use in large storage solutions and I asked just what it was that made their professional storage drives achieve much higher MTBF and altogether higher reliability than the desktop drives. And he laughed. The answer was pretty interesting. He asked if I thought about the economics of selling HDD's. A pro storage drive back then could easily cost twice what the desktop drives of the same capacity cost. The storage drives came with, I think it was, 3 year warranty while the desktop drives had a one year warranty. There were physical differences, in general the pro drives were heavier. But then he said something interesting. The BOM for a the pro drives were not twice as high as it was for the desktop drives. This meant they made probably twice the profit if not more for each storage drive they sold compared to the desktop versions. This also means that every desktop drive that fails and had to be replaced under warranty ate up a larger part of the profit from the initial sale. With replacement drive, handling and transport they had to sell more than ten desktop drives to pay for one failed. Meanwhile a failed storage drive cost perhaps five or six sold drives, if not less than that. So they constructed and tested the desktop drives to standards that were almost as stringent as their best storage drives. So mechanically they were very similar in reliability. What really differed were the certification procedures where they were tested and certified with different RAID controllers and storage solutions. And yes, that is important. It may seem like SATA and SAS is stable tech and there shouldn't be any compatibility problems with modern drives and controllers. And yet there are. When selecting a new HDD for a storage solution you should start by looking through the storage manufacturers HCL or Hardware Compatibility List. If there are drives that's been tested and certified as compatible by the makers of the storage solution you are using you should really consider using those. It can save you a lot of pain and effort. You might get away with just about any drive you want to use, but it can go very badly if you are unlucky. Now I come at this from the professional storage sector. I've had to replace hundreds of drives because of compatibility issues. It's not the least bit fun, and it doesn't save any money. The times this happened it was usually because a customer demanded a drive capacity where the RAID controller manufacturers hadn't yet certified any drives of that capacity. So we worked with the HDD manufacturers and they were only to happy to promise that of course there would be no compatibility issues because their latest drives were perfect! And yes, this was the two big guys, Seagate and WD. The good thing is WD coughed up over three hundred drives for replacement. Still not a fun job replacing 300 drives in a bunch of storage servers at the customers site. Seagate got away with custom firmware and together with the RAID controller manufacturer they put together a update package that flashed the drives while they were still in use. But again, it's something you want to avoid if you can. So unless there is a really good reason using a certified drive can be a good idea. Now this does not mean I endorse the Synology lock in attempt. This is Synology trying to play with the big boys in the storage game. Locking in the customers is an old tradition in the enterprise storage business. But bringing it to the prosumer market is a bit rich for me.

If you put in the tittle "Which Should You Buy?" you should make a 3.3 second video..... a 33 minute video should end with "Which would You Buy?" BTW, I love your long videos :):):)

If you want the best cost/GB you want seagate exnos or toshiba enterprise drives (16-18TB) as server drives are actually cheaper in cost/GB in really large capacitys. Also you should have backups and use RAID 1 instead of relying on any sort of extra data recovery, while only having a single drive.

WD lost my business with the whole WD Red fake CMR drive crap. I bought a 4tb Red drive for my nas because it was supposed to be a CMR drive but it wasn't as we all know now, they are SMR drives which give horrible performance in a NAS or any read heavy environment. I have several Seagate Ironwolf 4tb and 8tb drives in my nas as well and those are great and really are CMR drives. I haven't specifically used the Pro models though. If your really gonna go for the best price per TB though, you really can't go wrong with the WP Arsenal 12TB drives! $165 for a 12TB drive is gonna be hard to beat, and they are CMR drives as well. Admittedly they are refurbished and rebranded drives, but I bought one a while back and it's been fantastic so far, and they have lots of reviews from buyers saying this as well.

I bought 4 of those 14TB Seagate drives for my 4-bay QNAP NAS and 2 have failed within 10 months. That's 50% failure within that timeframe. Also, I note the Ironwolf Health reported the second drive that failed as still being healthy despite SMART reporting numerous bad blocks and the NAS warning it was failing and suggesting it be replaced soon. The NAS itself has an easy life, it being a simple backup storage of my main NAS so data only being written to it once a day (no reads from over my network). That's pretty abysmal reliability for a 'Pro' drive but yes - they were replaced under warranty.

Noise is a good think to see.coz if 1 or 2 disk.not make more noise..when you have 5-10 hdd it will make you sick

Noise important for a NAS? DAS yes, NAS not so much IMO. You can put it 100m away from your switch in the attick or wherever you want to put it. Certain WD Golds are often cheaper in €/TB than the WD reds , probably bulk buy in for datacenters....

Are the Ironwolf Pro drives supported by Synology for the DS1522+?

Why do the WD and Synology drives look almost identical?

Shouldn't you be comparing Synology HAT5300 drives more against the Seagate Exos & WD Ultrastar rather than these drives?

Look I am a home user who just wants a DAS to back -up my 3 HDD's on my PC. In other words a home user. My needs are very different from an enterprise user. I will likely use RAID 1. I believe 8 or 10 HDD's will be more than adequate. So what drives should I be looking at for my app. My biggest drive in my PC is 8tb and that is more than adequate. Your video goes on and on and on with no specifity as to the application and best drives for the application. Home users typically have a limited budget and drives are not cheap. So clearly I am looking more for a VW than a Cadillac. For my app would refurbished drives be worth considering? Would be nice if you address this.

One of the issues when drives get bigger: Some of them use shingled recording. They may be NAS oriented, but shingled recording has write performance issues... as in needing to re-write an adjacent track that got touched by an existing data write. A raid reconstruction can end up taking a week on a bit set of drives, compared to a day or so.

Synology has really lost my respect with the propritary NAS drives REQUIRING only Synology hard drive otherwise no support... Baloney... I would never buy their drives even if they were the fastest, for principal.

I really am disappointed by how little Hard drives have went up in capacity over the last 10 years. Even tape drives have been going pretty slow. And the price for this slow storage also is not getting better. I use to get 2TB drives Brand new from Frys for less then $140 dollars Brand new. And that was the top of the line at the time. Now? The top of the line is not only about the same speed, but even worse Long term reliability. What Irks me is that today? If I wanted to just keep a copy of all my Video tapes and videos? The only way that I would be able to do that would be to go with a Tape Drive. Its the only thing that makes sense for Cold storage. And the tapes that we have today still barely eclipse a Hard drive today. What the heck happened to all the stuff IBM was working on back in the day? We had Holographic storage and so much more. But as of 2021? 500TB disks are about all that's in the lab. And the write rate is about 0.25 MBps. Yes you read that correctly. The only CHEAP method so far is tape. And by "CHEAP" I mean the tapes cost as much as a Harddrive, and the machine costs as much as a flagship computer bits and all. Its crazy really. You would think we would be in the 50TB hard drive space by now. But SSD's have already got there in a 3.5 inch form factor...???

I had Snap and Synology... Nothing like controlling your own hardware with TrueNas

Ihave a gigabit enabled NAS and pc with a non-gigabit router at the moment.If1 connected both the PC and the NAS into a gigabit switch,then connected the switch into the router, would the PC and the NAS have gigabit connection read and wrt speed through each other? Regardless of my internet connection being 50mbps

synology drives are simply a greedy cash grab and pointless. Surely someone has figured out how to flash the standard toshiba drive to a "synology" drive to use in enterprise?

USP stands for unique selling point.

Any thoughts on the Toshiba N300?

19:58 I haven’t dealt with WD warranty but Seagate is not bad either. They send drives as soon as they see the defective drive in transit. I received my replacement drives before they received my defective drive. Toshiba sends gift cards, at least from my experience.

I agree with buying from manufacturers when possible. Then synology can’t come Back and say the issue is due to incompatible hard drive. Because they sold it!!