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Why are we suddenly selling more NAS grade HDDs?
I got mine in November
Recommendations?
I’ve put together a RAID 1 of these and some 860 Evo QLC Hard to say if they’ll last as long as BD but you can’t beat the capacity
https://visiontek.com/products/visiontek-tlc-7mm-2-5-ssd-sata-enterprise
https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-860-evo-2-5--sata-iii-500gb-mz-76e500b-am/
Something tells me the market for media servers is very different than the market for BD-R. The only benefit to having a collection of burned discs over a NAS is that you can let people borrow them. It's otherwise mostly downsides
If you have a Nas... install plex or jellyfin and you can still let them "borrow" it all the same...
Far from a "downside".
If you have a NAS you might know you should have a backup on different media.
If they were cheaper I'd use them for archival purposes. They work well as cold storage.
Are we back to trusting Seagate again? Last I knew their spinning rust was t trust worthy. I've had 6 drives fail me in the last 2 decades, and all but one or two were Seagate, so I just assume their bad anymore and go with other suppliers.
Every drive I've had fail, personally or professionally, has been a Seagate drive.
Every drive I've had failed was WD. My Seagates have been mostly fine
I've had both Seagate and WD drives fail. I just think drives fail rather commonly.
Seagate does seem to have a higher failure rate, but they are also cheaper. From this article:
Their oldest drives are Seagate as well, so that's saying something.
Whether a drive will be reliable for you is less related to the manufacturer and more related to capacity and luck.
Here's an anecdote from Reddit:
But this could also be luck, idk. My takeaway is:
I genuinely don't know. Their name was just the first one that came to my mind.