I have quite an extensive collection of media that my server makes available through different means (Jellyfin, NFS, mostly). One of my harddrives has some concerning smart values so I want to replace it. What are good harddrives to buy today? Are there any important tech specs to look out for? In the past I didn’t give this too much attention and it didn’t bite me, yet. But if I’m gonna buy a new drive now, I might as well…
Thanks for any hints!
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Buy recertified enterprise grade disks from serverpartdeals.com. Prices were around $160/16TB the last time I checked. Mix brands and models to reduce simultaneous failure. Use more than 1-disk redundancy. If you can’t buy from SPD, either find an alternative or buy external drives and shuck them. Use ZFS to know if your data is correct. I’ve been dealing with funny AMD USB controllers recently and the amount of data corruption I’d have gotten if not for ZFS is ridiculous.
Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 month ago
This is incredible!
American sites like this so rarely ship to France, or it costs a litteral fortune just in shipping, here it’s 130€ for a 12TB shipping included!
Wow.
I Do Not Need A 12TB Hard drive.
I Do Not Need a 12 TB Hard drive!
I mean or do I?
Thanks 💖
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Get more drives, run higher redundancy 💪
femtech@midwest.social 1 month ago
Yep, I have 6 14tb drives from them in raid10.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Three-way mirror?
pedroapero@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I use BTRFS for the same. Being able to check for and repair silent corruptions is a must (and this is without needing to read the whole drives, only the actual files). I’ve had a lot of them over the years, including (but not only) because of a cheap USB controller also.
actual_pillow@programming.dev 1 month ago
Damn I just put 32 more TBs in my homelab and wish I would have known about this site.
Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Holy cow these are way cheaper than anything I have seen before. I am in a RAID 5 setup so if a disk or two dies I am okay.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Move to a RAID-equivalent setup with ZFS (preferred in my opinion) in order to also know about and fix silent data corruption. RAIDz1, RAIDz2 would do the equivalent to RAID5, RAID6.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh, wow. Just ordered a new computer. I guess it have to include some more disks!