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10gbps enclosure NVME drive suggestions
January 19, 2023 at
09:46 AM
Hi, I have a 10gbps NVME enclosure and am looking to see what people suggest for a drive.
I'm leaning towards pcie gen 3 since it will be limited to 10gbps. I have been looking and a TeamGroup MP34 1tb or Silicon Power A80 might be good.
Are these bad, or are there any other options anyone recommends?
Thanks
I'm leaning towards pcie gen 3 since it will be limited to 10gbps. I have been looking and a TeamGroup MP34 1tb or Silicon Power A80 might be good.
Are these bad, or are there any other options anyone recommends?
Thanks
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The teamgroup has 2x the TBW of the Silicon power near as I could tell price seems low at 66 bucks at Amazon?
If you are using a few in RAID I would look at a heat sink and what your cooling is going to be.
reviews are mixed but if you do RAID and keep track of any issues you could be fine just needing to replace drives. A comparable enterprise drive will cost 6X as much at least.
The teamgroup has 2x the TBW of the Silicon power near as I could tell price seems low at 66 bucks at Amazon?
If you are using a few in RAID I would look at a heat sink and what your cooling is going to be.
reviews are mixed but if you do RAID and keep track of any issues you could be fine just needing to replace drives. A comparable enterprise drive will cost 6X as much at least.
Thanks for the information. It's mostly going to be used as data storage. I know that an external hard drive would be cheaper per tb. But I want to use this in addition to an external hard drive for redundancy and to use a different format for redundancy. I'm also worried that a lower quality drive like wd sn350 might have too low of a tbw rating.
Sorry I meant using a different device to save that doesn't use the same spinning disk technology than an hdd uses. I read that hard drives can fail more easily than a ssd. But hdd will keep its data and avoid it getting corrupted compared to an ssd. So both ssd and hdd have their drawbacks.
Part of that is file history on an external drive.
Part of that is file history on an external drive.
Are you planning on changing your storage method in any way to ensure that you don't run out? thanks
I have security cameras that all store locally.
I have a few 1 TB SSD but use them for when I need speed. I had a backup server at my old job with 12 TB spinners using RAID 6 I could spin up a VM that worked very well. Comparable to a regular desktop with a consumer level SSD. The drives all had 512MB cache so they almost acted as though they had a SSD cache drive.
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Are you planning on changing your storage method in any way to ensure that you don't run out? thanks
Typically when re-doing a RAID, you destroy the existing RAID and thus losing all data on the drives.
So with that said...when you upgrade down the road it would be far easier to have a new enclosure with new bigger drives to migrate your data off your existing NAS.
I'm used to doing this at an Enterprise level when we evergreen the old equipment.
*Others may have different info on the dedicated home NAS systems where the NAS OS can absorb new, bigger drives and utilize their full size vs. curtailing it.
Think 6x 1TB drives and you replace 1 with a 2TB drive...Normally the 2TB would be configured by the RAID as 1TB instead of 2TB, thus wasting 50% of the drive's space.
One thing to realize is that if you go to upgrade the size of the drives in a NAS, you then are tasked with where to put the data that currently resides on the existing drives so that new drives can be installed.
Typically when re-doing a RAID, you destroy the existing RAID and thus losing all data on the drives.
So with that said...when you upgrade down the road it would be far easier to have a new enclosure with new bigger drives to migrate your data off your existing NAS.
I'm used to doing this at an Enterprise level when we evergreen the old equipment.
*Others may have different info on the dedicated home NAS systems where the NAS OS can absorb new, bigger drives and utilize their full size vs. curtailing it.
Think 6x 1TB drives and you replace 1 with a 2TB drive...Normally the 2TB would be configured by the RAID as 1TB instead of 2TB, thus wasting 50% of the drive's space.
With most RAID you can pop in new drives and once they are all installed either expand the RAID or create a new raid with the difference in space.
for Synology look here
https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM...?version=
Use the cloud for photos with Amazon or Google etc
With most RAID you can pop in new drives and once they are all installed either expand the RAID or create a new raid with the difference in space.
for Synology look here
https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM...?version=
Use the cloud for photos with Amazon or Google etc