So, over the course of a year. I managed to fill up my WD drive to the last couple hundred megabytes left (damn you steam games!) I have 2 available sleds left in my fractal define s case, What kind of large storage drives should I look into buying? I'd rather get very large drives, so I won't have to worry about space.
If you have a lot of files which are read but not modified, then I would get the Seagate 8tb archive. It is perfect for media storage. Very seldom writes but regular reads and no expectation of lightning fast speed. If you want something more typical, then I would go with the HGST 6tb deskstar. Been looking at those two models myself and will likely pick up at least one in the near future.
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agreed. I just want to not worry about finding a new hdd right after I just bought one. I'm resorting to looking at my local microcenter, because I feel like I'm gonna get a dead hdd if I order online.
I've ordered over a half dozen online and never got a bad unit. If it is DOA, then send it back. Simple as that.
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true. I was looking at hgst's helium hard drives, but then I saw the price. interested in it's storage capacity, not it's whopping price for one.
Yeah, don't bother with that. The deskstar and WD red are great options.
well said. $669 for 8TB
My plan is 8tb archive for media storage, 6tb deskstar for everything else, and a separate 3tb drive for games which don't fit on the ssd. I would suggest something like that.
Should do the job.
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thanks for the recomendation. cheers
I believe that there's a point of diminishing return on hard drives.
I think it's smarter to buy a bunch of 1-2 TB drives and set them up in a RAID 5 or 10 for redundancy, especially with the rate of failure on mechanical drives. It will save you money and be safer overall.
probably best off with just a standard 4TB HGST NAS drive, price and chance for failure are going to go up with drive density.
They're 159
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/hitachi-internal-hard-drive-0s03664
really limited on space with a fractal define s case. only have 2 sleds for 3.5 drives.
do you know the approx.failure rate for hdd larger than 4tb?
There's this stuff from backblaze
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I've read some things which make me wary of the blackblaze numbers. There was an article on anandtech, I believe.
we have a thread about it
https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/backblaze-hdd-reliability-report-deconstruction-reveals-misleading-methodology-and-results/94716
my 2 cents is "yea they put them through hell and back but they did this to all their drives + a lot of it was due to defective drives_ that were never recalled_"
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