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Any recommendations for a 20TB hard drive? (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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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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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Never found such a dealer for germany

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I also bought one exos 18tb refurbished from those guys working great https://www.jb-computer.de/komponenten-zubehoer/speicher/hdd/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, that's some sweet savings. And even certified

[–] equidamoid 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, they don't send to NL :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Check out eBay, I'm finding lots of like 3TB disks for cheap.

Edit: on ebay.fr

Edit 2: cheap ones tend to be quite old so beware.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bookmarked; thanks!