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12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for
$74.99.
Shipping is free.
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About Refurbished Condition:
- These HDD is used by Datacenter Servers for about 5 years period.HDD was refurbished and data wiped with DoD Standard.
- It's fully tested & passed HGST factory diagnose software test with ZERO Bad sectors!
- Since this is a heavy duty enterprise HDD with 2.5M-hour MTBF rating.
Notable Specs:
- Ultrastar He12 Series
- 3.5" Form Factor
- SATA 6Gb/s Interface
- 256MB Cache
- 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed
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Locally you can do disk to disk backup
Locally you can use RAID and multiple drives
Remotely you can sync your data to a cloud provider like MS OneDrive, Amazon AWS, Google Drive, DropBOx, ect....
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Locally you can do disk to disk backup
Locally you can use RAID and multiple drives
Remotely you can sync your data to a cloud provider like MS OneDrive, Amazon AWS, Google Drive, DropBOx, ect....
At 12TB it can be very costly...
If that person really needs fast data transfers like they claim, they should be using something similar to RAID along with SSDs as cache drives probably.
As stupidly as I think unRAID approaches certain things.... It's a turnkey solution for exactly that type of scenario. Adding SSD caches to most NAS solutions is usually quite doable though.
If that person really needs fast data transfers like they claim, they should be using something similar to RAID along with SSDs as cache drives probably.
As stupidly as I think unRAID approaches certain things.... It's a turnkey solution for exactly that type of scenario. Adding SSD caches to most NAS solutions is usually quite doable though.
At 12TB it can be very costly...
https://www.cloudwards.
Here's to hoping they work with my LSI MegaRaid 9260-4i RAID card.
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I see for the Pro tier, they offer 20GB of storage and that's it. I also don't see the point of going with a third party paid MS Office clone, when there's MS Office 365 on the cheap, or Google Apps via Gmail for free. In other words, I'm confused why that service exist, but apparently they have a lot of users.
If that person really needs fast data transfers like they claim, they should be using something similar to RAID along with SSDs as cache drives probably.
As stupidly as I think unRAID approaches certain things.... It's a turnkey solution for exactly that type of scenario. Adding SSD caches to most NAS solutions is usually quite doable though.
But realistically, spinners are heading the way of tape drives, no one is using spinners except for Cold storage.
But realistically, spinners are heading the way of tape drives, no one is using spinners except for Cold storage.
Plenty of people are using spinners, they are among the most economical storage containers for media files and, well, basically everything else. What do you think all the cloud backup companies use...... these. Hence the Backblaze reports we all see quoted.
SSDs are better for certain workloads, that's why I said if you have need for fast transfers AND large storage, you use a bunch of spinners in an array and use SSDs as cache drives. Then you get speed, high availability, large storage capacity, etc at a reasonable price.
Spinners aren't going anywhere, SSDs are not price-competitive per TB and not everyone cares about the speed difference for their use-case.
People are also still using tape drives btw, but probably not a lot of home users, SOHO, etc. Plenty of enterprises still have tape drives kicking around on a schedule though. LTO tapes are pretty damn amazing honestly.
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