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RyantoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish·23 days ago23 days ago

What are good harddrives to use with servers

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What are good harddrives to use with servers

RyantoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish·23 days ago23 days ago

I have quite an extensive collection of media that my server makes available through different means (Jellyfin, NFS, mostly). One of my harddrives has some concerning smart values so I want to replace it. What are good harddrives to buy today? Are there any important tech specs to look out for? In the past I didn’t give this too much attention and it didn’t bite me, yet. But if I’m gonna buy a new drive now, I might as well…

I’m looking for something from 4TB upwards. I think I remember that drives with very high capacity are more likely to fail sooner - is that correct? How about different brands - do any have particularly good or bad reputation?

Thanks for any hints!

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Those are great drives but I would not want one of those in the room where I sleep haha
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  I have and while they sure are loud, dampening the NAS with foam tape (had some double adhesive tape from buying LED strips laying around) quietened it enough to be managable.