What does QNAP recommend as far as a HDD?

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What does QNAP recommend as far as a HDD?

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I just bought a QNAP TS-251A. I love this device. It's got some really cool features. For one, Qsync & ISCSI were great!

Before I buy some new drives for the thing, I was wondering whether QNAP recommended a curtain kind of Hard Drive?

As it sits right now, I have a mixed matched set of 1 Seagate 2TB and 1 Western Digital 2TB. I just had these drives laying around so I'm using them for testing purposes. Although I won't be using these drives as my permanent drives, I am getting an error message on the Western Digital. Does QNAP work better with Seagate?

Thanks,
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Check the QNAP compatibility list for drives.
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Thanks man!
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If anyone wants to know if their NAS unit is compatible with our IronWolf & IronWolf Pro NAS drives, you can peruse this link:

https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-d ... patibility
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