Comment on Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?
frongt@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Noise is not really a specification for this kind of drive. I would recommend just putting the server somewhere it won’t matter, if possible.
Most drives are mostly reliable. Backblaze publishes data on reliability if you’re curious, but I would just say to always be prepared to replace a drive. That means RAID and/or backups (but RAID itself is not a backup).
The only really important thing is to avoid SMR drives. Performance is terrible because any write involves a bunch of additional writes.
FierroG@lemmy.world 5 days ago
As far as I could find, both of the drives I’m considering are CMR, I guess for my purposes it doesn’t matter that much since I’m not going to do too much writing beyond a regular drive, as I mentioned my main reasoning was reliability and always on operation.
I intellectually understand the thing about drives dying every few years and have accepted that fact, but I can’t shake the feeling of that being wrong because I have other three regular hard drives with more than a decade of working fine.
black0ut@pawb.social 5 days ago
Be careful with WD reds and CMR/SMR. Even though every WD Red Plus should be CMR, WD is known for selling SMR drives marketed as CMR. The whole Red Plus line exists because, before that, the WD Reds were supposed to be CMR, but they started mixing them with SMR drives. People found out and lawsuits were filed, so WD’s answer was to say that the WD Red line didn’t guarantee CMR, and people needed to pay extra for the WD Red Plus line.
WD is forever off my list of trustworthy manufacturers. But there aren’t many options, and I understand that in these times it may be difficult to pass on a good offer. Read customer reviews and, upon arrival, make sure they’re CMR.
frongt@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Drives don’t die every few years. Some will, just out of pure statistics, but generally once they’re broken in, they’ll run for years and years. I buy mine used with up to 40k hours on them (~4.5 years) and they keep running for years more. Usually I end up upgrading them before they actually have issues.
doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Last drive I replaced was a consumer desktop drive that had been spinning in my server for 7 or 8 years. Get better drives than that and yeah, they’ll typically last a while.