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WD red 4tb is $120 with frys promo code on Tue. 1 per household they say.
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Backblaze https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2017/
they're a backup company that uses consumer drives and they publish stats on their 80,000+ drives, usage in days and...
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Where do you look to for data drive reliability stats?
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I'm having a hard time trying to decide if I want to move on this drive or not. Based on the Newegg reviews, this updated drive is having some issues... I'm not in need of a drive right now, but...
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All drives die over time. Not even a debate. I had HGST drives in home NAS (before WD bought them) and they ran for 7 years straight. They still worked but replaced them with these new ones and a mix...
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Yes, I'm running RAID1 mirroring on them for redundancy. Works well on my relatively outdated system using FreeNAS. Primarily using for Time machine backups, NextCloud storage for my family (some...
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they blog about drives in their environment - it's laughable to call it a study - their data is flawed and methodology hardly scientific. but HGST drives do hold up well in their environment. so...
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I'm running raid 5 with three of them.
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Are you running them in any RAID config?
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I have 2 of these running a NAS set-up, they are louder than some of the other drives out there, but the performance is great - known to be reliable as well. It's a NAS, and for me it's in the...
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Thank you 😆
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500gb SSD would do fine. I suggest getting a Samsung. Their cloning software is just simple and awesome.
Noise you can get over. Cries of losing all your stuff haunts you even when you turn them...
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Do a Google search: 8TB HGST BackBlaze. They have the most info on hard drives as they do an independent study on a lot of major brands. I can honestly say I have 3 4TB drives for 5 years now. No...
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He doesn't want to lose data, thanks for the help, seems these run a little loud though. How large a SSD would be required? Is there no way to transfer his HDD data to just run one large HDD like you...
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If you're not worried about losing any data then I would buy the 8TB HGST deal. If you are concerned about losing data, I would buy two of these and run them in a raid 1. I would also buy a SSD for...
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Here I go again trying to figure out what to buy for my sons Xmas want list... He has a custom built gaming pc and wants more memory. He currently has 1TB and says he needs at least 5TB for his...
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What about HGST/WD 8TB drives? Are they just as reliable as this 4TB?
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It was $90 few days ago at Newegg (w/ promo code)
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I got 3 of these from the frys deal and installed one for now on my ts251, and the noise does bother me. It will be worse if I put in one more drive. Still haven't decided whether to keep them or...
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Darn, apparently these ones are fairly noisy.
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