So i've been out of the loop for a little bit. Got held up by college and corona...
I'm needing to buy 12-36TB worth of external USB hard drive storage sometime between now and later fall, possibly even thru Dec. To start dealing with a growing data problem which could increase by as much as 6TB every month starting immediately. (though if it reached 36tb it's probably somewhat peaked and rapidly slowing, it could go beyond 36tb at a lower rate) I may or may not be able to wait for sales depending how long it takes. Since it's multiple drives savings and stuff will add up some.
Mostly wanting "good value" per TB drives, taking into account that reliability or usability can skew things a bit upward. For instance I have a preference for 10tb or especially 12tb drives where possible, because that's a size thats more usable to me as it also happens to match LTO8 tape volumes. (either the m8 format for the 10tb, or the full size at 12tb) I'll pay a little more for those sizes but not massively. 14tb or larger is disfavored, it's definately first choice 12tb, second choice 10tb, third choice "whatever is best $ per fairly reliable TB".
The drives would just be used as externals for up to one year. Eventually though they would get shucked and put into an SAS based gigabit-ethernet attached NAS (which i'm hoping can maintain gigabit rates, no idea if shingled drives are still intermittently slow and such/hasn't bought drives since about 2011 when they first were coming out, but LTO tapes can only slow writing so far before shoeshining). So things ive heard about like "pin mods" and what drives are more or less suited for NAS use I need to get up to speed on. Does anyone want to share either short or longer advice on what drives to get or watch for to go on sale? (ie has Seagate EVER improved their reliability or are they the same as they've been since the 2011 floods... i'll still buy them but i'm well aware they are the bottom tier of expectation)
I'm needing to buy 12-36TB worth of external USB hard drive storage sometime between now and later fall, possibly even thru Dec. To start dealing with a growing data problem which could increase by as much as 6TB every month starting immediately. (though if it reached 36tb it's probably somewhat peaked and rapidly slowing, it could go beyond 36tb at a lower rate) I may or may not be able to wait for sales depending how long it takes. Since it's multiple drives savings and stuff will add up some.
Mostly wanting "good value" per TB drives, taking into account that reliability or usability can skew things a bit upward. For instance I have a preference for 10tb or especially 12tb drives where possible, because that's a size thats more usable to me as it also happens to match LTO8 tape volumes. (either the m8 format for the 10tb, or the full size at 12tb) I'll pay a little more for those sizes but not massively. 14tb or larger is disfavored, it's definately first choice 12tb, second choice 10tb, third choice "whatever is best $ per fairly reliable TB".
The drives would just be used as externals for up to one year. Eventually though they would get shucked and put into an SAS based gigabit-ethernet attached NAS (which i'm hoping can maintain gigabit rates, no idea if shingled drives are still intermittently slow and such/hasn't bought drives since about 2011 when they first were coming out, but LTO tapes can only slow writing so far before shoeshining). So things ive heard about like "pin mods" and what drives are more or less suited for NAS use I need to get up to speed on. Does anyone want to share either short or longer advice on what drives to get or watch for to go on sale? (ie has Seagate EVER improved their reliability or are they the same as they've been since the 2011 floods... i'll still buy them but i'm well aware they are the bottom tier of expectation)