I found this its the cheapest 10TB Exos drive on Newegg and looking to buy 4 of them. I will be putting them in my NAS that I use for my media library and pc backups. The price I’m posting this is $130, I’m also looking similar Exos drives that are $250 is there a difference? Should I shell up for the more expensive drives?

  • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Make that RAID Z2 my friend. One disk of redundancy is simply not enough. If a disk fails while resilvering, which can and does happen, then your entire array is lost.

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      11 months ago

      Hard agree. Regret only using Z1 for my own NAS. Nothings gone wrong yet 🤞but we’ve had to replace all the drives once so far which has led to some buttock clenching.

      When I upgrade, I will not be making the same mistake. (Instead I’ll find shiny new mistakes to make)

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      11 months ago

      You must be running an icredible HA software stack for uptime increases so far behind the decimal to matter.