Hi everyone, I am currently looking for a new hard drive to add to my media server and want to buy a 20TB drive. Now the question is what manufacturers would you recommend or avoid?
As far as I can see it’s either Toshiba, Seagate or WD.
IMO just get whatever the cheapest one is of those big manufacturers. You should be running some sort of redundancy for your disks anyway, and disk failures are always a gamble no matter what you do to pre-emptively stop them. Personally I buy cheap refurbished drives and throw them into my RAID with the foregone conclusion that I might need to replace them sooner than a new drive, but I’m also saving so much money by buying refurbished that replacement cost will be cheap. Check ebay or ServerPartDeals if you subscribe to this line of thinking.
Edit: This would be sort of similar to “cattle not pets”, where you strategize for failure instead of trying to prevent it from failing.
Never found such a dealer for germany
Nice, thanks. I’ll have a look.
I also bought one exos 18tb refurbished from those guys working great https://www.jb-computer.de/komponenten-zubehoer/speicher/hdd/
Damn, they don’t send to NL :(
Backblaze posts stats regularly on their site, for example:
Scraped Amazon data, sort and filterable: https://diskprices.com/
if you buy off amazon, buy from amazon. buying storage from a marketplace seller is a total crap shoot.
LoL I’m trying to figure this out too. I found server part deals.
But I don’t have the whole setup figured out yet. I have my jellyfin media drive in just an external enclosure and is just an 8tb which is backed up (sorta not really) on a couple 4tb external drives I have that I copy stuff too and from. Don’t even have a backup of my PC but that’s cause it really doesn’t take much to re set it back up from scratch and I have a second PC running the proxy and stuff…
I’m definitely not the best at this and just accept that I’m doing more than average and nowhere near the people who have this all figured out.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage Plex Brand of media server package RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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