I have 3 slots left in my drive bay. It doesn’t have to be 1
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netburnr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You mean two drives right? Or are you going to risk your 20tb of data on just one?
Hgst is always my answer for quality drives, their enterprise drives are simply the best
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 11 months ago
Doombot1@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Quick note - HGST enterprise drives are great but those fuckers are LOUD. I’ve had one in my PC for a number of years and it’s done great, pretty quick too - but I can hear it across the room.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 11 months ago
And expensive, a 10TB from them costs as much as a 20TB one from Seagate
Metz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Refurbished is the word. I got a Ultrastar DC HC520 (12 TB) with zero hours from eBay for 130€. I guess it was originally intended as a replacement but was never used then and just collected dust. So basically brand new hardware. Sometimes you can even catch one that has still manufacturer warranty. One i saw had 5 years left on it.
Reaper948@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HGST is Always my go to as well, their drives just work and last a really long time in my experience
netburnr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I used to build usenet clusters, so constant read and writes 24/7. We had like a 2 percent failure rate after 6 years.