I’m running a QNAP TVS-471 with 10 TB WD Red drives. It’s configured as was recommended at the time I set it up with two of those configured in RAID1 and the other being backed up to. I’m looking at trying to future-proof things as much as I can and am considering moving up again to larger drives (I already moved from 6 TB to 10). Has anyone gone with larger drives, even a 26 TB WD Red Pro, and if so, have you experienced any performance problems? I’m not out of space yet, but trying to prevent that since I also run a Plex server on the NAS.
I have smaller WD RED for my NAS that have been stable inside Synology for 8ish years now (I think?).
I also use a local USB 3.0 direct WD Easystore 14TB connected to my NUC (also running Roon) for Plex specifically. When I was getting it a few years ago, at that time I remember reading that it was one of the biggest sizes available on the market and there weren’t many options of that size. The quality of the drives were much better than their WD Easystore name would imply and were enterprise level. Some people even shucked them for their NAS setups without issues. On sale it was less than $20 CAD per TB!
I’ve had zero issues with that drive and even recommended that same one to other close friends and they’ve been running it without any issues either. Although, my drive gets much more written and accessed daily. Still, no issues. It’s the best performing spinning drive I have. If that logic is still applicable today (but ballooned up to modern 2025 standard of 26TB), I think you should be good
