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- Automatic recognition of Windows and Mac computers for simple setup (Reformatting required for use with Time Machine)
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I had wondered the same thing, and now I have two 4 bay NAS enclosures plus 1 4 bay expansion with 2 8tb raid 1s, a 14tb raid 1, a 20tb raid 1 and a raid 10 w/ four 4tb drives. it is a slippery slope lol
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It's hard to tell what's inside one these 20+ TB Seagate externals. The very early ones may have had Seagate Exos or Ironwolf in them, and those are great for shucking, but lately people have been finding Barracuda drives in them and the most I'll say is the jury is undecided on how reliable they might be. They typically are rated for far fewer work hours (mtbf) but since they're pretty new, who really knows. Personally, I avoid them because I don't want to find out. I instead will look at a recertified drive from serverpartdeals.
Or GoHardDrives maybe. But prices seem to have gone up after some of their advertising campaigns. For both of these sellers.
For cold storage, I hope it's ok. But generally I'm guessing I'd just want something overall that I can use without worrying much either way. Unless I know it's strictly cold storage and then whether it's even safe for that.
Generally I just understand some drives are better. Not sure if they're all OK the same for cold storage. But generally I'd rather be assured than have half being iffy, unless I'm specifically speccing it for only cold storage.
Sound complicated, right? Rather get a good one.
The next step for you is building your own NAS.
Yes. I tested an old broken laptop with windows, with no screen or keyboard, hooked an external USB to it for testing.
About 10ish years later the "test" box has 3 externals hanging off of it and outlasted a round I went with Linux on server hardware. (My fault, I ran out of OS storage and didn't know how to fix).
Going round 2. Proxmox on bare metal and Linux VMs.
edit. it is so much more reliable then the Hulu plus subscription that I pay for. last week we had to uninstall Hulu and install Hulu three different times and the third time we couldn't get Hulu working at all pretty soon I'm not going to be paying Hulu.
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