synology ds1812, what do you guys think of my situation

[tommigsr]

going to pick up 10 of these hard drives (2 will be spare replacements)

HGST 4TB Touro Pro - External

going to crack open those external enclosures and use the hd inside for the NAS. reason why i'm doing this is because for some reason, the external drives are cheaper then just buying the internal component...weird

 

[Drako]

What's the actual HD in these?

 

[tommigsr]

I believe they are these

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/4tb-3tb-hdd,3183-8.html

 

[gorobei]

yeah, HGST is hitachi after being acquired by western digital.

 

[phillyman36]

I have a Synology 1812 with 8 3tb WD green drives. My only concern is if you take the drive out you void your warranty. As of today I see on newegg those external drives are $189.99
These 4tb Seagate are $179.99 (2 year warranty)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822178326

Or dependent on when you will buy them wait to see how much you can get the new Western Digital Se drives(5 year warranty)

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1050

 

[tommigsr]

i ended up tearing all the 4TBs apart and was very satisfied with what i did. I now have 32TB of data on 7200RPM spindles, running on the DS1812...super quiet! hopefully these drives fair out for the next 5 years or so.

 

[blastingcap]

Typically external drives are the lower graded stuff (like how they have one chip but some run better than others so some get sold as, say, full Titans, others as Titan LE; or some as GTX 680 some as GTX 670), so they put them in externals knowing most people will not run those externals 24/7. Good luck to you. I personally would not try to buy-external-and-run-as-internal experiment.

 

[fastman]

Personally I would take a 5 yr warranty over a 2 yr one any time. GL

 

[billyb0b]

skip synology and get a QNAP unit... much more capable interface and speedier for a similar unit