Comment on Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 days agoone thing to consider with a raid is the drive resonance. if you don’t have proper hardware to ensure the drives are properly isolated you could shave months or years off their lifespan.
always use the same make/model and data density when building a raid. you should also buy them either all new or used that were pulled from another raid.
also more is better. raids are designed to fail. buy extra drives to replace active drives. my personal rule is to buy 50-75% more than required. so if the raid will have four drives, I buy six or seven.
also, when one drive fails others will inevitably follow due to manufacturing defects or resonance changes. replace your backup stock when affordable.
I do agree though. of you’re selfhosting, a raid array is the best place to start. though, I’m personally partial to a raid-10 over a 5.
ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 5 days ago Yeah, a good enclosure will have accoustically isolated drives (rubber bumpers at the drive mount points)
I run rack-mount servers, so drive noise is the least of my issues (fans are always the loudest part of any server) but I used to run in a Nanoxia DeepSilence 6 tower, and it was amazing. 1mm thick superstructure, insulation, accustically isolated drive mounts, etc. Couldn’t hear that even when the fans were running at full steam.
zackhow@programming.dev 5 days ago
Same make and model is fine, but you do want to make sure they are from different batches if you can. Reduces the chances of multiple drive failure occurring at the same time.