chaplin2@alien.topBtoData Hoarder@selfhosted.forum•Most efficient and economic way to store about 20 TB of dataEnglish
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1 year agoInstead of high quality expensive drives, consider more of the medium quality drives with more copies. And HDDs are much cheaper than SSDs at high capacities.
Those data centers need drives that are accessed 24/7 by many users simultaneously. They have perfect operating conditions such as temperature, don’t care as much about noise, etc. That’s not your case.
Consumers need consumer NAS drives, not enterprise drives.
Seagate drives. Exos if your NAS is in a basement, or regular ironwolfs otherwise.