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12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for
$74.99.
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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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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.
Agree SSD storage have gone up a lot since last year. I think last year we were sitting at 30 USD/TB but it's now gone up to about 60ish. 12 TB of SSD is like 700-800 USD.
And also the consumer SSD are terrible at rewrite, a 1TB drive like a P3 plus has the endurance of 220TB... so if you are using it for cache drive that's not the way to go. Does it mean it woudl fail? I don't know, i have some that's way over the litmit and still chucking along just fine, but it can go out very quickly.
Enterprise SSD is where you want to use as a re-write vehicle, but they are very expensive.
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1) Tape/snip the pin on the drive that is used to signal PWDIS over the 3.3v rail.
2) Use a crimped sata-molex adapter (they don't even have 3.3v rail access because drives don't normally need it)
Just Google the problem and solutions, it's common and been around for a long time now.
Sample link - https://www.tomshardwar
Agree SSD storage have gone up a lot since last year. I think last year we were sitting at 30 USD/TB but it's now gone up to about 60ish. 12 TB of SSD is like 700-800 USD.
And also the consumer SSD are terrible at rewrite, a 1TB drive like a P3 plus has the endurance of 220TB... so if you are using it for cache drive that's not the way to go. Does it mean it woudl fail? I don't know, i have some that's way over the litmit and still chucking along just fine, but it can go out very quickly.
Enterprise SSD is where you want to use as a re-write vehicle, but they are very expensive.
There is no wrong answer if it works for you.
This also doesn't affect a ton of home users. The vast majority of people running home arrays are simply using it for serving media files on Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Kodi, etc, where it doesn't matter too much how quickly the data is written. It's going to be written once or only a few times and then read many times.
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but yea if it specifically applies it should automatically be on the check out page already.
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