expired Posted by KDoggMDF • Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023 2:17 AM
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expired Posted by KDoggMDF • Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023 2:17 AM
18TB Seagate Exos X18 7200RPM 3.5" Internal Enterprise Hard Drive (Recertified)
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Any coupon code available? I never buy anything from them before.
Yes write to the hdd 100% there is programs out there that will do it . Giggle it
I don't mean to shill for anyone, just am a genuinely satisfied customer and I think it's a great solution for a variety of situations.
If ZFS ever gets their multiple size drive update out I may switch to TrueNas --- but I am kind of putting some hope to see what the stealth LTT NAS is going to be.
Edit: I so miss Drive Pool's process to remove a drive from the pool. Could not believe Unraid doesn't really have a one step function built in to do that.
Recently ST Exos X14 does shown high failure rate in the famous HDD reliability report from BackBlaze: https://www.backblaze.c
I will wait for good deals on WD HC5xx series.
Or, heck, maybe check out thrift stores like Goodwill Salvation Army. Or pawn shops. Obsolete CPUs that nobody wants but work fine for low horsepower usage like media server. Not enough horsepower to do real-time re-encoding, though.
Make sure you get one with enough drive bays to put 3-4 hard drives in, and enough SATA ports on the motherboard.
These make great media servers. I've built several for myself & family & friends.
If you are afraid it will get too hot, buy a few cheap fans, like Antec 120MM F12. Quiet & cheap.
5 pack for $20 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PFBPHL6/
FWIW, I just bought a few HP T620 thin clients, $30-$35 each. Plug in external drive(s) like the ones that frequently pop up on Slick Deals.
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An important part of the data protection calculation that rarely gets addressed, is actually determining what portion of your data requires the highest level of protection. the 3-2-1 rule need only be applied to irreplaceable data. Everyone's case will be different, but in my experience the vast majority of home users honestly assessing their data for what is irreplaceable will come up with a surprisingly small size.
It's ridiculous to spend time, money and effort backing up data that is already easily available elsewhere. I've had people ask me for advice on how to properly back up their pirated movie and game collection. Your backup is the rest of the world. If you want to go for something like RAID to help prevent against the inconvenience of data loss due to drive failure, that's reasonable, but beyond that you probably needn't worry about that type of data.
Actually this is so slick I had to buy 2x. That raises the plex server to almost 100TB
You are just trying to confuse people on here with old articles that have no relevance to how the X16/18 enterprise CMR drives operate vs a SMR drive that you are comparing them too
FWIW - it's "I couldn't care less". I could care less means you do care a significant amount.
I've tried Irfanview a few times but I just don't care for it. It also lacked something really basic that was a deal-breaker for me.
What did IrfanView NOT do that you needed? It does a ridiculous amount of stuff, especially with the plugins pack. Like, you can text edit a PDF and then save it as an image or back to a PDF. Pretty insane for a program that's meant to be an image viewer.
Good luck with your future endeavors, you're going to need it.
FWIW - it's "I couldn't care less". I could care less means you do care a significant amount.
Lol i made stuff on top of it and i have my own agenda. That is HILLARIOUS!
I run over 2PiB and own and operate over 100 hdds that have been running for 2 years+ continuously , I think I am more than qualified to talk about hdds.
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Never heard of drive pool
The things it has going for it are that it's meant to be easy to setup and use, it allows the addition of disparate sizes and types of disks, and it can easily run other stuff off of it via Docker.
Unraid is fine if it meets your needs but it's far from the best option for everyone. If you care about the integrity of your data and not simply what drives might be dying, I'd argue that OMV with Snapraid and mergerfs is the superior option and it's not that hard to deal with from its GUI. Stablebit DrivePool with Snapraid is another good option and can even be run on Windows if the person is most comfortable there.
Both of those allow adding hard drives of whatever size as you go. The Windows option costs money obviously but OMV doesn't. OMV can run Docker as well if that's a concern.
But if you just want to add a bunch of hard drives at random, manage things easily from a GUI, maybe run some Docker containers, and don't mind some gotchas on speed and caching..... Unraid may be worth the cost of entry. I hear upgrading has gotten easier too, so that's a plus.
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