8TB 'Cold Storage' HDD

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  1. Zenarcist

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    i heard they are bad, they get stuck at 10-30MB/sec Write Speed after a few minutes... and i heard that everything more than 2 terabytes is a risk, so if i were you, i go for a 4 separated 2 TB HDDs instead of a big single one! so be careful ;) and good luck!
     
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    For archiving it might be fine, but I have an issue with HDDs larger than 2tb because the max per platter capacity is 2TB, therefore those drives have 4 platters, which means 3 times higher failure rate.

    Personally, I'm not buying any more HDDs till I get 4 bay NAS enclosure, then throw 4 WD 4TB in RAID 10 and have a redundant and faster 8TB storage
     
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    I plan to do something similar :wink: Just got to get my data levels down below 8TB! :)
     
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    Yeah, I'm a bit apprehensive. I'm looking to backup my educational material, so it is basically write once and forget it.
     
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    Noted, in that case, you may go for the 8TB Hard Drive! try locking it after Backing UP your stuff, Read-Only wont affect the drive i think.
     
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    The drive showed up today and I'm running some audio files for 24 hours as a mini stress test, but I must say the drive seems to be what I was looking for, given that it will spend most of it's time at the back of my cupboard.
     
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    Some screens & Numbers please ? i'm interested.
     
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    Western Digital Purple are discounted in my country on Amazon. May be yours too ;)
    They can handle high stress (high audio recording/playing tracks) because they are video recording optimized.
    They should work nice in a NAS, too ;)
    Received my 3TB : 99 euros.
     
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    lucky modhafuckaa x'd :rofl::rofl::rofl:

    :bleh:
     
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    Seagate drives have been a nightmare for me and my Dad and have proven really unreliable, and 6 have failed and student money lost to the pit of Seagate profits.
    Generally just when they have conviently gone out of warranty.
    I have lost study work and in the end replaced the Seagate's with WD's which have worked with no problems.
    We were also told by Seagate not to move more than 500mb at any one time with is ridiculous.
    Not great IMO:wink:
     
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    Storing ANY data on ANY SIZE HD is a risk. If you're referring to shingling causing low Write speeds as you have seen above, the margin for that is MOST LIKELY higher than 2TB. I'd say probably 3.6TB or less don't have SMR.

    Source: http://www.seagate.com/au/en/products/enterprise-servers-storage/nearline-storage/archive-hdd/ >3.6TB

    See my post in https://audiosex.pro/threads/hard-drive-recommendations.17712/page-2#post-131496

    I've had 3 ST HDs in the last few years
    1. ST Barracuda 7200rpm 2.7TB 2013 (RMA'd in 2013 due to bad sectors)
    2. ST Barracuda 7200rpm 2.7TB 2013 (retired in 2014 due to degrading seek, but SMART OK)
    3. ST NAS 5900rpm 2.7TB 2014 OK in 2015
    As you can see ALL the Barracuda 7k2 HDs were retired early. Only time will tell if ST NAS is worth it.

    See my post https://audiosex.pro/threads/hard-drive-recommendations.17712/page-2#post-131276
     
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    ...on an 8 TB drive ??? :woot:

    You must be a very well educated man :)
     
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    I have one of those in my HTPC for movies. No problem watching 1080p movies on it. When copying lots of files to it, after a while, yes the speed is only about 30mb/s but for mainly storing stuff and watching movies, it rocks.
     
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    I'm preparing for Armageddon :winker:
     
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    I'm not doing anything fancy, just backing up data via an external USB3 caddy. It performs as well as my WD Green drives in this scenario, and once filled it really is going into cold storage :)
     
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    EMP protected i assume :cool:

    :mates:
     
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