February 24, 201412 yr Hi ... a quick question if i may. I'm building a couple of Unraid microservers and am faced with a decision of which discs to purchase. Here in UK ... SG 4TB nas discs are running at around the £135 mark still yet the plain vanilla SG 4TB desktop drives are down at £115 .... I only intend to run one server 24/7 so what's the advice? Save a bit of dosh (£80 cos i need 4) or pay up for the nas version? Just thinking ... maybe 4 nas in server 1, 4 desktop in server 2. Or just use the cheaper of the two drives on yhe grounds that the majority of the time the discs will be spun down making nas use irrelevant. Any opinions?
February 24, 201412 yr The desktop model got good ratings for heat and power consumption. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28475.msg253458#msg253458 I just bought bunch of them.
February 24, 201412 yr Backblaze (check their blog) basically believes that the only difference is the sticker on the outside and the additional price you pay. With 25,000 drives in service they are in the place to know. Based on their research I'd just buy the desktop drives. http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/ Sent from my mobile
February 24, 201412 yr Author The desktop model got good ratings for heat and power consumption. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28475.msg253458#msg253458 I just bought bunch of them. THink i might go NAS drive for parity and desktop for data .... on the grounds that parity will get more of a hammering than the data discs which are media only. This a good idea? Or should I stick with one type throughout?
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