Re: hardware recommendation

On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, infoomatic wrote:

> On 28.06.22 19:21, Robert Huff wrote
>> 	A disk drive on one of my machines is dying.
>> 	I'd like to replace it with a _reliable_ (the old one lasted 10+ 
>> years at moderate loads) consumer-grade SATA II or higher drive of at 
>> least 500 gbytes.
>
> In the light of the link to backblaze, my mail seems quite useless ... 
> I have had great experience with WD red with conventional magnet 
> recording - be warned my number of disks I can compare is much lower 
> ;-) However, I would go with a prosumer/enterprise-grade SSD.

For spinning metal, I'll second the mention of WD Red. They are claimed 
to be "NAS grade." I've been using them for years with no issues.


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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org