August 25, 20178 yr So...for a while now; I've really wanted...to swap out, my 12-bay, 2U, case...for something much smaller. I've currently got a mish-mosh, of 7 drives...for 19T. It's been a while, since I bought anything bigger...than 3T. My philosophy is...I don't want to be, on the bleeding edge. If they're offering, as big as 4; I'm playing it safe with a gen behind/smaller...and sticking with 3s. So I was shocked...to see, drives are as big as 10T now! Yikes!! So I guess my question is this: how "dependable"...are 6T drives at this point? Because, obviously...4 x 6T, would still allow me some growth; and move down, to a 4-bay enclosure (maybe like, the Asustor AS6104T?)
August 25, 20178 yr I've found the 6+TB drives to be more reliable and faster than the older smaller drives. However right now the sweet spot is at 8TB drives, you can get a WD external and shuck it for ~$170 (See the good deals forum). I'm currently running a 10TB parity and it's amazing. Faster than any of my other drives, never goes about 28 degrees. With drives, there is little risk in the consumer space, by the time they get to us they have had to solve the problems for the large enterprise customers (like Amazon, Google, FB etc) so if they were "iffy" they would never have been deployed in the first place.
September 1, 20178 yr Even 10TB drives have been around for a year or so, so they're not even bleeding edge. Seagate already has 12TB and 14TB drives in production, they're being used by various "partners" (AKA Amazon, Microsoft, Google) for a while now. Anything over 10TB will be a Helium drive from any vendor, and any HGST/WD drive over 8TB will be Helium too. I've not used a Seagate Helium drive yet, but have a few WD ones (WD80EZZX I shucked from MyBooks), and they've been fine. 2 are over a year old, and 1 is about 6 months old. The younger one makes a little more noise than the other two, it's newer firmware has a odd head patrolling feature, so it's trundles and ticks 24/7.
September 1, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, HellDiverUK said: ... so it's trundles and ticks 24/7. Sounds like a time bomb
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