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Your question makes no sense. Any drive can and will fail, and no matter the brand it may fail immediately or it may last years. The rule is to avoid all of yo
by nolok 7y ago
Your question makes no sense. Any drive can and will fail, and no matter the brand it may fail immediately or it may last years.
The rule is to avoid all of your drive being from the same factory date/batch, even if they're all from the same brand order from different stores or whatever to help make sure in case of a defect they're not all affected.
Also for home NAS ensure you have redundancy (a proper raid level, avoid JBOD and Raid-0), and have backups. Raid is not a backup.
- hddherman 7y agoI would add data integrity to the list, in addition to redundancy and backups. ZFS is great in this regard: redundancy, data scrubbing to ensure data integrity and built-in snapshotting and data replication features (zfs send-receive). Can't believe how I got by without ZFS in my earlier years of data hoarding.
- nolok 7y agoAbsolutely right, most home Nas don't have zfs but can use btrfs, which helps protect against bit rot and offers proper data scrubbing.