Comment on How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?
comrade_twisty@feddit.org 6 days ago
Never use SMR disks in a RAID/NAS. You’re taking a huge gamble on data loss / disk failures if you do. Also it will be slow as fuck, really fucking slow, often unusable for anything but incredibly slow backups.
CMR disks are the ONLY way to go.
theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
So I could use an external hard drive for backups and only turn it on when needed? But it would be very slow as you said.