Well that’s kinda killed it! lol
Surely the “Watching / Muted” button will cure that 
Can I mute you ? 
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Sure, but only if I can flag that as off topic lol
@ChuckPa is dedicated. He follows threads he’s invested in.
If you’re muted, you can’t flag anything. 
I’m off to enjoy dinner.
nice 6" thick roast in the crock pot.
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So, after all of that…
@shawnhallum_gmail_com - Generally speaking, faster is always better… Therefore 7200 drives would always be better than 5900. I literally cannot think of any scenario where the opposite would be true.
Technically, you would be right.
In practice, however, the database that’s stored on my WD RED 6TB 5400 Spinning Rust is ‘instantaneous’ in it’s delievery - and since it’s a WD it doesn’t sound like a WV Department of Transportation Snow Blower.
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I’m just back from an ‘Emergency Dentist Visit’ (you have to be bleeding-out these days before somebody will pick up a stapler) wherein the finest Dentist of all time ‘tried’ to remove #19 incisor ‘Pain Free’ (yea, I knew that wasn’t going to happen - the dam thing was 9 inches long) - that was at least long enough to wake up my ancestors in it’s removal, leaving me a quivering mess - just as soon as those 60mg Codeine tablets wear off.
Dinner?
I’ll get some as soon as I pass it through the Blender…
YOU BAST…!
I have a Synology DS2413+ that I got as an empty hand me down from my company when they decided they didn’t need it. (yeah, imagine that) I filled it with ten Toshiba X300 5TB drives in Feb of 2017 and they have been running 24/7 ever since with no problems at all. At the time they were on the synology approved list. May still be but since they aren’t made anymore I can’t tell. I heard the same thing about IronWolf drives as well. Really loud.
On the other hand, since my Synology is on a shelf above my head where my computer is it acts as a white noise generator blotting out all human voices in the other room… much to my wife’s dismay. 
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I don’t see it posted in this thread yet, but it’s important to note that for the sizes being quoted by the OP, WD Reds are now using SMR rather than CMR which has a negative effect on performance. Seagate on the other hand has stated that none of it’s NAS drives (Ironwolf and Ironwolf Pro) uses SMR.
As always, it depends.
Slower spinning drives dissipate less heat. Which is better if you are going to cramp several of them into a relatively small space (as is the case in a NAS).
High RPM drives are faster with ‘random seek times’. However, we are talking mainly “media storage” here. Media file playback is just mainly reading and writing larger, contiguous files linearly, from start to finish.
“Database” use is the opposite of that, with a lot of small files, often spread across the platter. You want a high-RPM drive for that and, if technically possible, a SSD cache.
So (unless you are storing your plex data folder onto that drive), it is actually better to use slower-spinning ones. Simply because they are not nearly under the same stress as a database drive and they still deliver ample of reading speed of your media files.
And both your NAS and your ears will rejoice, because with less heat dissipation, the whole device will run at lower temperatures, which then leads to
- longer life of all components
- slower spinning fans, leading to
- less noise
- slower buildup of dust & fluff inside, which then contributes to an overall longer life of the unit and the drives
And for some reason, so many people forget about the performance aspect of your media storage, especially in terms of multiple streams.
From what I have seen, PMS will initially read as much of the media content from your storage, as fast as your storage can hand it out - up until the point where either the Client Network cache is now full and requires no more content, or the Transcoder has throttled back - I know this for sure, because I can see the Disk I/O ramp right up when a stream starts.
Now the stream has started, things settle…
Now another user starts a stream, and the above happens again… I know this, because I have seen it happen, again and again.
And now yet another user starts a stream…
And so now, your media storage is getting very busy!
And if you don’t consider this, then before you know it, you are creating a bottleneck for your system.
So… If you are a single user, who has their media storage right next to their TV, and who doesn’t share their content, then fine… Maybe a 5400 drive would be ok.
But for any geek who is actually into this, and who shares their content… That’s another thing again!
So, I’ve gone ahead and ordered the NAS as well as the 6TB drives from 3 different vendors as I didn’t want to have more than two from the same batch.
My next question is whether it would beneficial to install NVMe in the cache slots? Would this help with the data being transferred over or in playback or both?
Thanks Trumpy81
And this might be a dumb question but I don’t have my NAS yet and so I haven’t been able to verify whether the 1019+ has an HDMI port. If not, how will it connect to my Samsung TV? I assumed HDMI but maybe it connects wirelessly? And if it does have a HDMI 2.0 or 2.1 is there a way that I can attach to my HDMI 1.4 ?
lol 
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