expiredtDames | Staff posted Feb 20, 2024 09:08 PM
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expiredtDames | Staff posted Feb 20, 2024 09:08 PM
12TB Seagate 3.5" 256MB 7200RPM SATA Enterprise Hard Drive (Refurb)
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Always test these before you deploy them on servers.
Then you'll also find the people who have no understanding of how to protect data, or the bathtub curve of failure, getting thumbs down for their "warnings"
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consumer drive. Besides, mechanical failure in general is in some ways more common and at a higher pain point on consumer hardware than at enterprise scale, simply because of the difference in volume. You might see one bum drive in the time it takes enterprise servers to find dozens, but it might also take you much longer to reach that conclusion (see Seagate Barracudas mfg in the early 2010s).
These were probably used in a RAID for some database, where the files are mostly contiguous and cached.
Feel how you will, but I would definitely trust these far more coming out of a server than some home NAS or gaming PC.
Also enterprise operations buy hardware to use it. My NAS most of the time is going to have a tiny fraction of the activity an enterprise server will have. Even if they are both up 24-7 the actuator in my drives is going to sling around a lot less.
Consumers are using SSDs for small random writes. These HDD are mostly for large contiguous video files with a smaller amount of space for picture files.
That said, you might be better served (and possibly cheaper) just buying an already to go external HDD.
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But when you say backup, you aren't referring to just the 10TB, right?
A single backup drive is not enough to be considered a true backup.
If you value the data on there, you need to have it in more than one location.
It goes beyond the reliability of the drive. What if your house floods or burns down?
Also enterprise operations buy hardware to use it. My NAS most of the time is going to have a tiny fraction of the activity an enterprise server will have. Even if they are both up 24-7 the actuator in my drives is going to sling around a lot less.
Consumers are using SSDs for small random writes. These HDD are mostly for large contiguous video files with a smaller amount of space for picture files.
I'm sure they'll go for that.
I'm sure they'll go for that.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-in...od-so-far/
I don't know about WD Blue HDD because their speed is lower than even my 8 year old WD Black consumer drives, but certainly reasonable consumer drives seem to work fine in the data center.
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