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> who should I be buying external HDDs from Trick question. The answer is "don't". I can't find a direct citation for external HDDs being the lowest parts-bin
by Lammy 5y ago
> who should I be buying external HDDs from
Trick question. The answer is "don't". I can't find a direct citation for external HDDs being the lowest parts-bin of drives manufactured, but the pricing tells the story enough for me.
My data is valuable enough to me that I usually spend ~twice as much on a high-end drive and put it in my own enclosure. I usually go for IronWolf drives, and I'm a big fan of ICY BOX enclosures: https://icybox.de/en/product.php?id=297 https://icybox.de/en/product.php?id=297
- pickledcods 5y agoThe thing I greatly dislike about Ironwolf is that it displays a nonsense value for the smart attribute "Raw_Read_Error_Rate". I have no idea to how to extract the actual error rate, if any.
- DiabloD3 5y agoSeagate has used an odd encoded value for this for years. You're attempting to read a raw value, which is meant for Seagate's internal tools. This is all documented. smartctl knows how to parse it, it just never does by default (a long-standing bug that isn't high priority enough to fix). Do `smartctl -a -v 1,raw48:54 /dev/xxx`, or `-v 7,raw48:54` for raw seek. However, these values have never been useful to diagnose a drive as failing before data corruption appears (and it gets kicked of a raid), in my experience.
- pickledcods 5y agoThank you for the insight!