I found this its the cheapest 10TB Exos drive on Newegg and looking to buy 4 of them. I will be putting them in my NAS that I use for my media library and pc backups. The price I’m posting this is $130, I’m also looking similar Exos drives that are $250 is there a difference? Should I shell up for the more expensive drives?

  • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    10 months ago

    Aren’t they meant to go in data centers? You wouldn’t want a drive in a data center to spin down. That introduces latency in getting the data off of them.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      10 months ago

      That should be a choice of the OS / controller card not of the drive itself. Also what datacenter wants to run drives that don’t report half of the SMART data just because they felt like it?

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
        36·
        10 months ago

        Data centers replace drives when they fail and that’s about it. They don’t care much about SMART data.

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10·
          10 months ago

          We used to use smart data to predict when to order new drives and on really bad looking days increase our redundancy. Nothing like getting a bad series of drives for PB of data to make you paranoid I guess.

          • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            What kind of attributes did you find relevant? I imagine the 19x codes…

            I’ve read the Blackblaze statistics and I’m using a tool (Scrutiny) that takes those stats into account for computing failure probability, but at the end of the day the most reliable tell is when a drive gets kicked out of an array (and/or can’t pass the long smart test anymore).

            Meanwhile, I have drives with “lesser” attributes sitting on warning values (like command timeout) and ofc I monitor them and have good drives on standby, but they still seem to chug along fine for now.