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mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space 9 months ago
I would strongly suggest not using 900GB 10kRPM drives (and especially not 10 of them) in [current year] when brand-new 8TB hard drives cost $120, and 14+TB recertified drives aren’t much more than that. The power costs of 7 more drives than you need for the capacity definitely add up over several years of runtime.
erev@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m a college student and I already dropped a lot on the server. I haven’t gone too deep into my planning for upgrades yet aside from the H730, more RAM when I can afford it, and more drives. I’ll take the 8TB drives into consideration though, I’d just have to build that up a lot slower but it’d give me a lot of space. 10x8TB would be fun to have
khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
You don’t need 8 drives when they are 8 times larger than your current ones. I went from planning for 5+ drives to just downsizing to two drives in mirror. Then I can expand with another mirror.
Unless you need uptime and want to guarantee an SLA for your own services, you are much better off with a mirror or raidz1. Do regular backups (off-site, incremental) and don’t fear the disk failure.