I’m looking for 16TB HDDs. They’ll be for fairly light usage. Immich will be the heaviest thing running on it.

New? Used? Certified? Like this?

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I have a mix of shucked, new, and used drives in my home server.

    WD reds out of some USB enclosures that are pushing 7 years old, some new EXOS drives that are pushing 4, and some refurbed EXOS drives that are pushing 2 years now.

    Zero issues, but I’m also running them as basically stand-alone drives with mergerfs and snapraid. I don’t really care about 99% of the data, since I can just like, download all the ISOs again, but in x265 encoded versions.

    7 drives, zero failures, though I’m expecting the 8tb reds to start dying any minute now.