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Hi folks,

Just had an alert from my NAS saying one of my WD Reds has died. I bought it in June 2016 so that's 8.5 years and I have no real idea if that's good or not.

Either way, I'm looking for a replacement 4Tb drive. Would prefer reliability over price concerns. Any recommendations?

TIA!
 
I use WD Reds but the Pro version. I change my drives every four years, a) to reduce risk of failure and b) at 4 years old the drives still have reasonable resale value so the cost of change isn't too great.

If it was me and one drive has failed, and they are all the same age, I'd be changing the lot.

In my Synology system they are configured with Synology SHR, and you can just unplug drives and one by one, and it copies data across the new drive automatically. I changes from 3 x 4Tb to 3 x 16Tb just by chnaging one drive at a time. The 4th slot has a WD Purple in it for the CCTV
 
I use Ironwolf Pro drives, but to be honest for a home user I don't think there is much if any difference between NAS drives.
You don't say which NAS you have, but if Synology, it maybe worth future proofing yourself and getting the Synology HAT3300-4T at around the same price as WD Reds
 
I'd say 8.5 years is OK - I've had both WD and especially Seagate NAS rated drives fail after much shorter times than that. I went with Backblaze hard drive stats, and I'm moving over to 4TB Toshiba NAS rated drives (HDWG440) as the WD ones fail. Early days with them though - I currently have 1 x WD @ 2833 days, 2 x WD @ 2228 days, and 2 x Toshiba @ 254 days.
 
Have a QNAP 4 bay NAS and the 2016 drive is the oldest. The rest are 2020/2021 from when I upgraded to WD Reds across all the bays.

Thanks for all the replies guys.
 
I have Seagate Ironwolf discs in my Asustor Nas. You get three years for normal discs and 5 years for the pro versions. Seagate has the Ironwolf disk management for NAS that monitors the health of each disk. Never had a problem with any Seagate drive I have had over the years, maybe I am just lucky.
 
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