When you`re buying a hard drive for your Synology NAS, you`re looking for two things: solid day-to-day performance, and long-term reliability. All of the drives highlighted below are designed for 24/7 NAS use cases, and excel at those two traits. I`ve used all the drives on this list, and considering I have a 120TB home server, I know a thing or two about picking the right HDD for a NAS enclosure.
Truly outstanding
Seagate IronWolf
Staff Pick
I`ve been using two 14TB IronWolf drives for just under a year, and they`re rock-solid in 24/7 use. IronWolf drives feature Seagate`s AgileArray tech for better performance and reliability, and come with rotational vibration sensors to minimize vibrations. Starting with the 6TB model, all of the HDDs spin at 7200RPM, have a 180TB/year workload rating, and 1 million hours mean time between failures (MTBF). All IronWolf drives also feature CMR tech and come with a 3-year warranty as standard, and are ideal for NAS enclosures with up to 8 b...
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