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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?

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[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 18 points 11 months ago (10 children)

It's just the cheapest type of drive there is. The use case is in large scale RAIDs where one disk failing isn't a big issue. They tend to have decent warranty but under heavy load they're not expected to last multiple years. Personally I use drives like this but I make sure to have them in a RAID and with backup, anything else would be foolish. Do also note that expensive NAS drives aren't guaranteed to last either so a RAID is always recommended.

[–] rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ok cool, I plan on using them in RAID Z1

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Make that RAID Z2 my friend. One disk of redundancy is simply not enough. If a disk fails while resilvering, which can and does happen, then your entire array is lost.

[–] SexyVetra@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hard agree. Regret only using Z1 for my own NAS. Nothings gone wrong yet 🤞but we've had to replace all the drives once so far which has led to some buttock clenching.

When I upgrade, I will not be making the same mistake. (Instead I'll find shiny new mistakes to make)

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Instead I'll find shiny new mistakes to make

This should be the community slogan

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You must be running an icredible HA software stack for uptime increases so far behind the decimal to matter.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That was uncalled for.

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