Hi everyone, I am currently looking for a new hard drive to add to my media server and want to buy a 20TB drive. Now the question is what manufacturers would you recommend or avoid?
As far as I can see it’s either Toshiba, Seagate or WD.
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With everyone self hosting huge servers like this, my question is… how can I access some large ones like this? Kodi, Plex?
Kodi & Plex are just ways to manage, organize, and browse a multimedia collection.
If you’re talking about accessing a specific server that has a large collection of multimedia on it, accessing it is fairly simple
Step 1: Have a friend who is hosting such a multimedia collection on their server Step 2: Ask that friend if you can have a login to access it.
To my knowledge there aren’t really any people hosting such servers that are giving away access to people they don’t personally know. Certainly not for free.
I think the illegality of it usual restricts it to people you know fairly well.
Ive got a pair of 12TB Seagate drives in a NAS that have been running great for a few years, now.
I’ve heard varying opinions on Seagate’s longevity, so your mileage may vary. So far, they haven’t given me any issues.
Yeah I heard that too, wasn’t sure if it was only their SSDs
I purchase some Seagate HDD, but was left with the feeling that I regretted buying them. as they are quite noisy.
I would go for WD red, when I get new HDD.
They are sitting in the basement, noise is not a concern. Why WD red?
Scraped Amazon data, sort and filterable: https://diskprices.com/
I can get a 20TB drive on mindfactory.de for 15€/tb.
I’m based in Germany.
Yeah that’s how I saw that only 3 manufacturers are offering disks that large.
I got a bunch of the Seagate Exos x18. Greate price/TB and performance. Though they were only the 16TB SATA variant and not the SAS one.
IMO just get whatever the cheapest one is of those big manufacturers. You should be running some sort of redundancy for your disks anyway, and disk failures are always a gamble no matter what you do to pre-emptively stop them. Personally I buy cheap refurbished drives and throw them into my RAID with the foregone conclusion that I might need to replace them sooner than a new drive, but I’m also saving so much money by buying refurbished that replacement cost will be cheap. Check ebay or ServerPartDeals if you subscribe to this line of thinking.
Edit: This would be sort of similar to “cattle not pets”, where you strategize for failure instead of trying to prevent it from failing.
Never found such a dealer for germany
I also bought one exos 18tb refurbished from those guys working great https://www.jb-computer.de/komponenten-zubehoer/speicher/hdd/
Nice, that’s some sweet savings. And even certified
Nice, thanks. I’ll have a look.
You mean two drives right? Or are you going to risk your 20tb of data on just one?
Hgst is always my answer for quality drives, their enterprise drives are simply the best
I have 3 slots left in my drive bay. It doesn’t have to be 1
Quick note - HGST enterprise drives are great but those fuckers are LOUD. I’ve had one in my PC for a number of years and it’s done great, pretty quick too - but I can hear it across the room.
And expensive, a 10TB from them costs as much as a 20TB one from Seagate
I went with the Seagate Exos X20. That was three months ago, and so far so good. A lot of reviews said it was super noisy, but I haven’t noticed much difference between it and other hard drives. It’s a bit more noisy when it spins up, but then it’s fine.
It just sits in a server at my in laws’ house and backs up the RAID array at my house, so it’s basically always writing data, but at throttled network speeds (~2MBps).
That’s what I’m going with I guess. Thanks
