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> speeds will be lower and reliability may suffer 1Gbps is the max. anyways for my home setup, no matter how fast the drive is and I have a backup for importan
by tutfbhuf 6y ago
> speeds will be lower and reliability may suffer
1Gbps is the max. anyways for my home setup, no matter how fast the drive is and I have a backup for important stuff, I'm not dependent on enterprise NAS drives.
I want: extremely small, low cost and very low watt usage.
- vladvasiliu 6y agoThe main issue is that larger capacity drives (> 2TB) seem to be SMR in the 2.5" range. I've looked and haven't found a PMR one (except maybe for "enterprise" drives which cost more than an SSD). Depending on how you want to use those drives, you may be having a bad time. For example when rebuilding a ZFS pool. [0] If your use case / setup allow you to deal with the complete loss of your array (which, granted, is not 100% likely) or don't use ZFS, then I suppose you could look at Seagate's 2.5 Barracuda line. They're relatively cheap given their capacity and I don't think they're particularly unreliable in and of themselves. [0] There are many people talking on the internet about ZFS performance with SMR disks. Here's a quick find: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/western-digitals-smr-disks-arent-great-but-theyre-not-garbage/2/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/western-digitals-smr...
- tutfbhuf 6y agoRAID-Z2 on 4x2TB 2.5 inch HDD (without SMR) on a PI over 1 GbE sounds fine to me. It's not super much space, but any two drives can fail, it's rather cheap and low powered + passive cooling should be possible.