HGST Deskstar NAS 4 TB Review
by Ganesh T S on November 22, 2014 2:00 PM ESTSingle Client Access - DAS Benchmarks
The HGST Deskstar NAS was connected to a 6 Gbps SATA port off the PCH in our DAS testbed. After formatting in NTFS, it was subject to our DAS test suite. The results are presented in the graphs below.
In general, we see that the HGST Deskstar NAS manages to beat out the contenders with lower rotational speeds (such as the 5900 rpm Seagate NAS HDD and the 5400 rpm WD Red). However, it loses out to the higher end drives (such as the WD Red Pro or the Seagate Enterprise Capacity v4 - which has extra cache). This performance difference is also brought out in the pricing that we looked at in the previous section.
Certain workloads seem to make the HGST Deskstar NAS perform well in the PCMark 8 storage bench, but, in general, we see the scenario from our robocopy benchmarks play out here too.
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cen - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - link
Bought 4 of these for my home NAS and they really are great for the price. The only negative thing is the noise.. I wouldn't have 4 of these in my room for sure.Laststop311 - Sunday, November 23, 2014 - link
I use a 2TB version of this drive in 1 of my pc's and I don't notice any offending noise. The case does have noise dampening foam all around it and the hard drive is elastically suspended and isolated from the frame but I use all noctua fans and a fanless psu so if the HDD was making a lot of noise it should be audible. Maybe it's just your set up. You need to properly suspend the drive off the case with rubber so no vibrations are transferred to the case which is the main cause of noise.Laststop311 - Sunday, November 23, 2014 - link
Maybe the GPU drowns it out but even when the GPU is not in use i still don't hear the HDD even with large file transfers with no gpu activitycen - Sunday, November 23, 2014 - link
You only use a single one, I have 4 of these. This is a big difference.ddriver - Sunday, November 23, 2014 - link
Well, you do have an even number of disks, arrange them the right way and their noise will cancel out ;)melgross - Sunday, November 23, 2014 - link
That would be nice, if it actually worked.ddriver - Sunday, November 23, 2014 - link
Yeah, except it would generate extra heat. If the drives operate in synchrony theoretically they could be arranged in such a manner that their noise cancel out, but it be quite the feat of engineering. It would be tremendously easier to simply dampen and absorb the noise.Zertzable - Sunday, November 23, 2014 - link
Is that why datacenters are so quiet? ;)jota83 - Monday, November 24, 2014 - link
I am getting 60 of those by the end of the week :) Let's see how they perform within a JBOD (Quanta M4600H)NightShade00013 - Saturday, January 16, 2016 - link
I just got done doing a burn in with five of these for my FreeNAS and inside a 4U sitting on my kitchen table the fans were louder than the drives by far. The case is a rosewill RSV-L4500, the two rear 80mm fans have been changed out to PWM fans but the 120's are the ones that came with the case. Not that it's loud at all but the drives were the least on my mind.Burn test was done with BadBlocks and took about 65 hours to run completely. Running a smart long test now and that is the only thing that is a little different. Drives are ranging from 548 minutes to 582 minutes to complete.
Got the drives for less than a 4TB WD Red (not the pro version) so I am loving it. Still need to get two more to finish out my pool but RaidZ3 should be great with a set of seven drives.