I use RED drives in my server environment for the low energy, low heat aspect. They are great for tight spaces like under a PSU shroud. Designed specifically for RAID NAS.

Not a bad NAS drive. Probably about the best Price/GB NAS drive. Only 5400RPM, so the speeds aren't amazing, but still totally great for most applications. These are popular for a reason, because they're good and they work.

Reliable. Quiet.

Reliable drive for backups

Quiet, cool, low vibration. Very solid drives over-all with a great WD warranty to back them.

The HDDs definitely click a lot when writing (sounds like a Coffee machine boiler), but that is mechanical HDDs for you. Not a major issue because most I/O is from SSD, and these are used for capacity.

3TB should be enough. The WD Red drives I found to have a better GB/$, and the sequential speeds actually improves when the capacity gets bigger, so with this in mind, I split it into two partions of a 1.5TB partition to hold all of my games, and a 547GB partition for all of my projects, and miscellaneous programs and files.

It's also quiet, and runs cool too.

The one true NAS drive in this machine and it's seen it's use. Over 52,000 power on hours and still runs like new.

Bulk storage & reliable; what more could you want? Its not designed for speed!

Again, hand-me-down, and still very nice to store games that you dont play to often or as a media storage.