85
What are good harddrives to use with servers
(discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted
3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
by
ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de
to
c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
I have quite an extensive collection of media that my server makes available through different means (Jellyfin, NFS, mostly). One of my harddrives has some concerning smart values so I want to replace it. What are good harddrives to buy today? Are there any important tech specs to look out for? In the past I didn't give this too much attention and it didn't bite me, yet. But if I'm gonna buy a new drive now, I might as well...
I'm looking for something from 4TB upwards. I think I remember that drives with very high capacity are more likely to fail sooner - is that correct? How about different brands - do any have particularly good or bad reputation?
Thanks for any hints!
I would say Seagate Exos or Western Digital Ultrastar.