[GLLUG] Hard Drive recommendations

[Mike Brodbelt]

Heh - I was just about to post that link :-). FWIW, I've been running a NAS with 4tb Hitachi deskstar drives for a while now. The Ultrastar ones are a bit expensive, and the backblaze post strongly suggests that "green" drives suffer from reduced reliability.

Mike

On 21 March 2014 08:07:30 GMT+00:00, Andrew Davies <amd_uk at lineone.net> wrote:
>On 21/03/2014 07:20, Dylan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm looking to get a new hard drive for data storage and to 
>> accommodate 3D graphics rendering data. It will be a 3 to 4TB SATA-3 
>> drive Are there any brands/models to avoid at the moment, or any
>other 
>> gotchas I should be aware of? This will be a purely data drive, so 
>> BIOS size constraints etc are not an issue.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dylan
>>
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>Backblaze.com did a blog post about hard drive reliability a few months
>
>back:-
>
>http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
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