4TB drive recommendations

ifixidevices wrote:

I know the ST4000DM000 is a desktop drive (economy class drive) but after spending $800 on a 6 bay pro and upgrading it to 8GB's of memory a Q6600 processor I didn't have enough left over to put in enterprise or nas drives... The good news is most of the drives (actually all but 1) have over 6 months usage on them and they are still all functioning perfectly. They run pretty cool as well. I can get right at 100MBps via FTP or via AFP/SMB. They are powerful drives and they are mighty fast enough to do what I request of them day in and day out (constantly doing something 24/7.)

I'm glad they are working out well for you. But the ST4000VN000 costs only $20 more in the US, and is a better choice for NAS. It also has a 3 year warranty.

ifixidevices wrote:
I backup everything to crashplan and am going to be getting another readynas pro 6 and install it at either my inlaws house or my parents house and replicate the hell out of it!

Always good to have more than one backup. You could co-locate the two NAS though, since crashplan provides disaster recovery.

If the pro-6 is just for backup, then you could also use crashplan's "friend backup" feature - which is free, and includes the same deduplication that crashplan central uses, and is encrypted. The data at the destination is encrypted, not just the link. So if the pro-6 were stolen your data would not be compromised. Just a thought.