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TravisBanger
Nov 04, 2014Aspirant
Ordering a ReadyNAS with any disk EXCEPT Western Digital?
I would like to replace my current ReadyNAS which contains 4 disks with a more recent model. Is there any way I can specify the disks as ANY BRAND except Western Digital? TIA
jonnymorris
Mar 17, 2015Aspirant
I'm sure I read somewhere that WD had bought out Seagate anyway, so they are probably effectively the same technology and factories producing both brands by now. I have found Seagate Constellation drives to be very reliable in the past, although they really do not like sudden power loss as I had two develop bad sectors from power cuts (in a ReadyNAS Duo V1 on a UPS), after this I upgraded my UPS and several power cuts later have not had a repeat failure since. I have also used Samsung and IBM drives in single external disk enclosures without any problems.
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