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EricHiggin on 04 February 2022
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Captain_Yuri said:
EricHiggin said:

I got an internal Barracuda 8TB ST8000DM004 SMR for $169 CAD on BF. It's regular $249 I think. I know they're supposed to get pretty slow with rewrites, but it's just being used as a media storage drive, so that won't be a problem for a while, and shouldn't be too big a deal in the future once it's full anyway. It's pretty quiet, though makes a little noise when it spins up, and has been plenty fast so far. No idea as to longevity as I've only had it for a couple months, but the reviews looked mostly positive when I bought it.

The past 3 or 4 internal drives I've had over the last decade and longer have been Seagate and they've never failed. Only once did I receive a dud and that was right out of the box. I've had a few WD externals and the one that got used the least died after a few years.

Yea SMR hard drives aren't bad for the right price and if you are only backing up, they can last a long time.

Well not backup specific. I play my media from the drive as well, from 3 different sources at times and it never has an issue keeping up. Only get's a few degrees hotter than the 2TB Barracuda right above it and neither runs very hot under load. I use the WD externals as backup storage only.

Come to think of it, I wonder if splitting an SMR drive up into a bunch of partitions would be better if you're constantly rewriting. That way you could just wipe and reformat each partition, which should save from slow rewrites.



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