How to select correct hard drive for your TNAS?

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How to select correct hard drive for your TNAS?

applicable models: All TNAS models

Applicable TOS: All versions

Since TNAS device need to work 7x24 hours, It requires high reliability of the hard drive, only hard drives that meet specific specifications are recommanded for TNAS, especially when you need to build a RAID. If you use unrecommended or unhealthy hard drives in TNAS, it may cause your device to malfunction, crashes, or you may even face data loss.

Please be sure to select your hard drive according to the compatibility list! If you need to determine whether your hard drive is healthy, please refer to the following guidelines.

If you need to build a RAID in your TNAS device, it is recommended to use hard drives with same brand, similar models and capacities.

For more information about choosing correct hard drive for NAS:
https://www.seagate.com/tech-insights/w ... master-ti/
https://blog.seagate.com/special-ized/w ... -your-nas/

[martinhunt09]

Before buying the best hard drive you will have to decide what you will use it for. What is the capacity and speed of the hard drive.

As far as I know There are over a million hard drives that you can use.

Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD

Hope this can solve your problem

[demetry14]

I personally prefer WD Red Pro NAS 4TB Hard Drives. I have been testing them in the F2-210 and F4-210 with success. My F4-210 has been under constant 95%+ CPU load due to docker/photoprism and and the categorization of nearly 200k family memories. The drives are fairly quiet and the NAS fans are doing their job to keep the drives cool so far.

[King7]

Is the compatibility list on the TerraMaster official website up to date? How often is it updated?

[TMzethar]

We usually have new devices/disks/others for testing at irregular intervals. The test results will be updated on the compatibility list.

[CathyW]

Hope the compatibility list can be updated every month or every quarter , this will give users more choices when they decided to buy a hard disks .

[elhefegaming]

I ran into this:
viewtopic.php?t=1864&sid=d64128a7eaf844 ... e10bb3abd5

Why is it not recommended?
I'm planning on purchasing a F4-212 and 4 of those drives.

[TMzethar]

Because the HDDs in this series are noisy.

[elhefegaming]

Is that the only reason? My nas will be tucked away where noise won't be a concern. So if that's the only issue I'm OK with it
But it would be good for TM to clarify this comment; as it may lead to confusion

I can get the 7E8 for 140$ and there's nothing close

[TMjack]

We do not recommend the Seagate Exos 7E8 8TB hard drive, mainly because this enterprise-level hard drive is relatively noisy, although its performance is completely reliable. If you are not concerned about the noise issue, then you can use it with confidence.