Best bang for your buck NAS HDD

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You just repeated back to me what I already knew, have you thought about being a consultant?...

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it’s RAID six so i have two parity drives, I don’t want tempt fate to prove my thinking but it means I can lose two drives without loss of data.

Overall I like Unraid; I have a mix of a few VMs and a half a dozen dockers. Seems pretty reliable but not sure if that’s the hardware of...

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I've got an Unraid with mainly WD drives at the moment, 5 x 8TB and a few 1-2tb drives but hitting 74% utilisation so looking to proactively upgrade the two parity drives before using those 8tb's to replace some of the smaller drives and then slowly replacing all the drives with bigger drives, so even...

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Anyone upto speed with best value NAS drives, the three most popular/readily available brands are:

Toshiba N300 // 12tb = ~£240 // 16tb = ~£280 // 18tb = ~£340

Seagate Ironwolf Pro // 12tb = ~£265 // 16tb = ~£355 // 18tb = ~£390

Western Digital Red // 12tb...

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Anyone selling any sledges?