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What are good harddrives to use with servers (discuss.tchncs.de)
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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...

I'm looking for something from 4TB upwards. I think I remember that drives with very high capacity are more likely to fail sooner - is that correct? How about different brands - do any have particularly good or bad reputation?

Thanks for any hints!

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Buy recertified enterprise grade disks from https://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 silent data corruption I'd have gotten if not for ZFS is ridiculous.

[-] Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 17 points 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 8 points 1 month ago

Get more drives, run higher redundancy 💪

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