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expired Posted by Hotsoup • Jul 9, 2021
Jul 9, 2021 6:21 AM
6TB WD Black 3.5" Performance Desktop Hard Drive
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Also, yes a drive "can" last for 10 years but the longer you leave it in production, the higher chance of a failure. Rotating drives out every 3 years or so is good practice. I recently sold a 3TB that I had in production for 10 years but I did not feel safe with data on that drive and this was within a dual parity Unraid array (92TB total). Also, it is an excellent time to sell your old drives if you want to get rid of them. I recently condensed my entire server down to 5x16TB drives and 2x 14TB drives and made more on the resale prices than the new purchases. All large format drives were purchased from Best Buy and a enterprise equipment refurbisher for $15-18/TB.
If you absolutely need this drive right now for whatever reason, then yes this is your best deal for this drive. However, that does not mean it's a good deal (which it isn't) and also, as I said before, I see no reason why you need a high performance drive like this for basic data storage. You're paying a premium for little to no good reason. If your sole purpose is streaming videos over your home network, their bitrates can easily be handled by much slower but far cheaper drives. If you're transferring other large amounts of data that require fast performance, you probably should be looking towards solid state based arrays anyway.
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Also, yes a drive "can" last for 10 years but the longer you leave it in production, the higher chance of a failure. Rotating drives out every 3 years or so is good practice. I recently sold a 3TB that I had in production for 10 years but I did not feel safe with data on that drive and this was within a dual parity Unraid array (92TB total). Also, it is an excellent time to sell your old drives if you want to get rid of them. I recently condensed my entire server down to 5x16TB drives and 2x 14TB drives and made more on the resale prices than the new purchases. All large format drives were purchased from Best Buy and a enterprise equipment refurbisher for $15-18/TB.
If you absolutely need this drive right now for whatever reason, then yes this is your best deal for this drive. However, that does not mean it's a good deal (which it isn't) and also, as I said before, I see no reason why you need a high performance drive like this for basic data storage. You're paying a premium for little to no good reason. If your sole purpose is streaming videos over your home network, their bitrates can easily be handled by much slower but far cheaper drives. If you're transferring other large amounts of data that require fast performance, you probably should be looking towards solid state based arrays anyway.
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