Comment on Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
What’s more important is redundancy, as all drives fail.
What’s your replication/redundancy/backup plan look like? That’s more important than “which drive” (other than SMR/CMR), as even enterprise drives fail.
I’ve had consumer drives running 24/7 for 10 years.
Drives are a lot more robust than most people think, but they still fail at seemingly random times, so having backup is crucial.
I have an (old) NAS that frankly I don’t trust to not die. Then again, anything can die, so it’s just one component of my local data replication.
I also have my server which is authoritative for all data, which is then duplicated (on schedules) to the NAS and 2 external drives, so I have 3 local copies.
All of these drives are 5+ years old except the primary data drive which is 2.