NAS Guide

Network Attached Storage News and Reviews

  • Best NAS
  • NAS Pro Blog
  • NAS Buying Guide
You are here: Home / Archives for Hard Drives

Selecting the Best Hard Drive for a Network Attached Storage (NAS)

November 6, 2013

WD Red 3 TB NAS Hard Drive SATA III  64 MB Cache WD30EFRX

There is a nice article over at custompcreview.com discussing options for choosing hard drives for use in a NAS. Over the past few years, the major manufacturers have made this a simpler task by releasing drives … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, NAS, Network-attached storage, Western Digital

Seagate NAS Hard Drives

October 26, 2013

Seagate NAS hard drives have been around for a few months now and are getting generally good reviews. As you may know, consumer rated hard drives are generally not recommended for use in NAS devices for several reasons. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hard Drives, Seagate, Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, Seagate, Western Digital

Seagate NAS Hard Drives Getting Good Reviews

August 23, 2013

The recently released Seagate hard drives that are especially configured to be used in network attached storage devices (NAS servers), are receiving quite good reviews around the web. On Amazon, they currently have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hard Drives, Seagate Tagged With: Amazon.com, Seagate, Seagate Technology, Western Digital

Western Digital Red vs Green Drives for a NAS (if no RAID)

November 27, 2012

An interesting thread is over at the whirlpool.net.au forum dealing with the question of which drives to go for if you are building or setting up a NAS. The original poster asks whether the Red or Green drives should be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, RAID, Western Digital Red Drives

Sale on WD 3TB NAS Drive

November 21, 2012

Amazon is running a sale on the 3TB NAS-ready "Red" hard drive. As of this writing you can get it for less than $160 - click here to check the current price. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hard Drives, Western Digital Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, hard drives, Western Digital

Hitachi 4TB Hard Drives Review

July 4, 2012

I came across a post a few months old on Tomshardware where they did a comprehensive review of the Hitachi 4TB hard drives and compares it to the 3TB hard drives that are available from Western Digital, Seagate and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hard Drives Tagged With: Hard disk drive, Hitachi

4 TB Hard Drive for a NAS

April 9, 2012

Seagate 4 TB Hard Drive

With the coming of 4 terabyte hard drives, it was only a matter of time before they were certified by NAS manufacturers, such as Synology, for use in their NAS devices. As of this writing the 4 TB Seagate Hard Drive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hard Drives Tagged With: 4 TB Hard Drive, GoFlex, Hard disk drive, Seagate Barracuda, Seagate FreeAgent, USB 3.0

Get Posts By Email

Delivered by FeedBurner

Recent Posts

  • FreeNAS vs Dedicated NAS Hardware
  • Thecus N2560 Review
  • D-LINK ShareCenter DNS-327L Review – a Passively Cooled 2-Bay NAS
  • Synology DS214play Review
  • Thecus Photo Sync Added to Its Mobile App
  • Introduction to Using FreeNAS – Tutorial
  • Drobo vs Synology and QNAP
  • Synology DSM 5.0 Beta Available Now
  • Best NAS 2014 – 1 Bay – Most Popular and Highly Rated NAS Servers (January)
  • Best NAS 2014 – 4 Bay – Most Popular and Highly Rated NAS Servers (January)

NAS Pro

  • NAS Pro Home
  • Network Attached Storage Buying Guide
  • NAS Pro Blog

Categories

  • Akitio NAS
  • Amahi
  • Asustor
  • Backup
  • Best NAS
    • Best NAS 2014
  • Buffalo TeraStation
  • Build a NAS
  • Build or Buy a NAS
  • Choose a NAS
  • Cloud Storage
  • D-Link NAS
  • Drobo
  • FlexRAID
  • FreeNAS
  • Guides
  • Hard Drives
  • HP Microserver
  • Iomega
  • iSCSI
  • LaCie
  • NAS
  • NAS4Free
  • Netgear
  • Openmediavault
  • Pogoplug
  • QNAP
  • Raid 1 vs Raid 5
  • Reviews
  • Seagate
  • Shuttle NAS
  • Synology
  • Terra Master
  • Thecus NAS
  • Turnkey Linux NAS
  • Ubuntu Server
  • unRAID
  • Western Digital Hard Drives
  • Western Digital NAS
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Home Server
  • Windows Home Server 2011
  • ZFS File System
  • Zyxel

Tags

Amahi Backup BSD Build a NAS CrashPlan DiskStation Drobo Drobo Mini DS1512+ DSM Fedora FlexRAID FreeBSD FreeNAS Gigabit Ethernet Hard disk drive Intel Atom Iomega Linux Media Server Microsoft Windows NAS NAS Reviews Netgear Network-attached storage Openmediavault Plex QNAP RAID Reviews Seagate Technology Synology Synology NAS Thecus Thecus NAS Ubuntu Unraid USB USB 3.0 Western Digital WHS 2011 Windows 8 Windows Home Server Windows Home Server 2011 ZFS

Home    Privacy Policy    Contact Us    Earnings Disclosure    Sitemap   
Copyright © 2008-2014, NAS Guide, All Rights Reserved
NAS Guide