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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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
HGST is Always my go to as well, their drives just work and last a really long time in my experience
I used to build usenet clusters, so constant read and writes 24/7. We had like a 2 percent failure rate after 6 years.
I have 3 slots left in my drive bay. It doesn’t have to be 1
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
I have data I don’t want to miss on mirrored WD red drives. Oldest set is from '14, but are more in sleep mode then active. (Also 2TB drives, newest are 4 TB, I’m not even close to 20 TB)
Have been operating all 3. Get the cheapest you can get at the moment.
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.
Just one tech’s opinion but I’ve worked in storage for almost 20years. WD Ultrastar (formerly Hitachi) has the most consistent reliability historically. The current series of WD Gold’s are Ultrastar’s with a different sticker and often cheaper than the Ultrastar stickered version.
They are a little more expensive than their competition but worth it.
2nd Exos, 3rd everything else.
I can’t remember the last time I had one of my Ultrastar arrays having a failure. If my clients need to choose a cheaper drive on price I have tried Ironwolfs and have replaced a bunch of 10tb Ironwolfs a few 12’s.
In the consumer space the Backblaze drive failure releases are good to pay attention to.
Performance wise all SoHo CMR drives are pretty similar in the 7200rpm models.
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
It wasn’t SSDs, it was regular spinning drives back around 2009.
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?
Then i would go for Seagate Exos X20 https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-ironwolf-pro-20tb/2
If noise was a concern, they are noticeable quieter. WD Red Pro 22TB Hard Drive, NASCompares
