Re: hardware recommendation
- In reply to: Robert Huff : "hardware recommendation"
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 06:42:42 UTC
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 7:23 AM 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. > Any particular product lines getting consistantly good reviews? > And what should I avoid like flesh-eating bacteria? > Some anecdotes ... - My laptops ... -- ThinkPad X260 c 2017 has been running original 2.5" Seagate 500 GB disk (ST500LM021); -- other laptop has 500 GB M.2 WD Blue <something>570 or (750) NVMe PCIe 3 SSD. For unrelated reasons, I do not use it much. - At work ... -- boot+OS SSD ... ---- using mostly Samsung 8x0 EVO SATA III SSDs as boot+OS disks in mostly CentOS [68]/Rocky Linux machines & a few of FreeBSD 13 machines; ---- recently got 3 machines with 500 GB Samsung 980 M.2 NVMe PCIe 3 SSDs as boot+OS disks (one machine has 2x M.2 slots, so that got ZFS mirror with FreeBSD 14; other 2 are single-SSD Rocky Linux ones); -- Data archive with 4 separate ZFS RAID-Z[23] arrays (all disks were|are CMR; FreeBSD 1[0-3]) ... ---- about 8 of 32 4TB WD Red NAS disks failed in ~2 years while in use in 4 separate ZFS RAID-Z2 arrays (8 disks/array); ---- ~1-3 of 24 6TB WD Red Pro NAS disks failed in ~2 years in 2 separate -Z3 arrays (12 disks/array); ---- currently using 6TB WD Red Pro NAS disks in 2 separate -Z2 arrays (6 disks/array, taken from above -Z3 arrays), and 14TB Seagate Exos16 disks in 2 separate -Z3 arrays (7 disks/vdev, 2 vdevs/array) for just shy of 2 years; ---- One 14TB Seagate disk was dead on arrival. But I did not find out within the return period of the retailer; had to settle for likely refurbished disk from Seagate than much preferred outright new-replacement from the retailer. FWIW; YMMV; etc. - parv