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Best NAS Hard Drives - Seagate, WD, or HGST

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I am buying a Areca 8050TB2 and need to fill it with drives. What are the best NAS hard drives? I have narrowed it down to one of these 3. Price is not an issue since they're all within $10 of each other. If you have experience with these drives, please comment and advise! Thanks in advance.

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First be sure to select a drive that is on your NAS' compatibility list, secondly if the WD Red drive is on that list, I'd opt for that over the other two.
 
I'm going to offer a dissenting view and recommend the HGST Deskstar NAS drives - they're faster and in my experience with Hitachi/HGST drives, they are more reliable than WD Reds.
 
Seagate is out then. WD RED it will most likely be but I've also heard/read great things about HGST/Hitachi. Not the most popular choice but the disk speed is faster increasing performance a bit.
 
I went with the Seagate 4tb when upgrading my Synology. They've been in for just under a year and no problems. The WD red is still a good choice.
 
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