Submitted 4 months ago by Dust0741@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I’m looking for 16TB HDDs. They’ll be for fairly light usage. Immich will be the heaviest thing running on it.
New? Used? Certified? Like this?
I bought two of those serverpartdeals drives after seeing them recommended on reddit after searching for good refurbished drives and they have been running fine for a few months now with no errors in the smart data
Bought 8 16TB Ultrastars from them. Haven’t had a single issue with them
I’m using a western digital refurb HDD. 14TB.
running 24/7 pretty much since the pandemic. It’s basically my media server.
A WD? I also like living dangerously.gif 😊
I kid of course. It could be absolutely appropriate depending on the data and budget.
It is absolutely a dangerous life lol.
I keep everything backed up. It was a temporary purchase that I fully did not expect to last 5 years.
It’s literally been a clicker since day 1 lol.
No failures. No slow reads. Just a zombie beast.
I’ve used serverpartdeals for 2 Seagate 16TB drives. I had 1 drive start to show signs of premature failure (unusually slow read/write speeds and read errors).
Their support is amazing. They 2nd day Air shipped me a replacement (after asking for advanced replacement) so I could rebuild my array before returning the old drive. No cost to me.
Good service gives me way more confidence in a store front than just positive product reviews. Can’t recommend these guys enough.
They know that if a customer is noticing those signs that they’re savvy enough to pick a different solution if they don’t offer good support
Best buy wd elements. On sale every couple of weeks. Crack open the shell and you have a wd red or white.
My second machine uses such disks. They work fine. They’re a bit more expensive though. I can run a 48TB array with 4-disk redundancy with recertified datacenter WD disks from SPD for less than the equivalent 48TB array from external WDs with 2-disk redundancy. The 4-disk redundant system will be more performant.
I’ve been doing this for at least a decade now and the drives are just as reliable as if you bought them normally. The only downside is having to block one of the pins on the SATA connector with kapton tape for it to work.
Sometimes yes, but I haven’t seen that lately. 5 years ago I had several of those, but I haven’t seen it recently
There’s a lot of comments talking about used and refurbs. I personally use these types to get good deals but I also have a reasonably robust backup protocol. Not a full 321 backup but an appropriate level of risk for my needs.
My point being, if you go that route, they’re cheaper but the odds that one dies on you might be higher. Make sure you manage your backup strategy to a risk value you’re comfortable with.
That said, I’ve also had great experiences with serverpartdeals. I’ve also used diskprices.com to find deals.
Things to consider are noise, temps, power-on time, etc. For myself, temps are fairly consistent in my case and it’s in a closet so I don’t care about noise. I also don’t need particularly fast access on the HDDs (I use an nvme cache strategy as well) so I can pretty much use whatever. Your needs might differ.
I’ve been buying used 12tb HGST from Amazon for $80.
I’ve been running a 12 bay nas for 8 years the only drives I have had fail have been Seagate drives.
I now use WD reds and lately due to their very good price point on eBay Toshiba drives.
Although the Toshiba drives do seem to be slightly noisier so depends where your server is located.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
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I always buy new because time spent fixing a problem or recovering data with a used drive ain’t worth it to me. It may be to you. A manufacturer refurb might be ok, in fact I do buy refurb monitors sometimes, but not data storage.
I’ve been buying Water Panther refurbished drives.
Both Arsenal (had them for a while) and SaveGreen (they just released recently) and have any had a good experience with them for how cheap they are with warranty.
Only filed 1 RMA, and the turnaround was fairly quick.
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
This is a great reference:
backblaze.com/…/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2023/
Serverpartdeals is a good source for cheaper drives.