@bikegremlin said:
Barracuda and the likes are SMR.
Considering the options, @Ympker has mentioned, there was not much choice, hence my "the difference is subtle" above:
2.5" WD Blue of the same capacities are SMR either.
IIRC, you need to go either "1TB or less" or even "500 GB or less", depending on the series.
For Seagate, the only 2.5-inch CMR option is Exos HDDs.
☰ Probably the best Black Friday storage offers — AMD EPYC VDSes with NVMe slices (ref) from 250GB to 4TB and 500GB–10TB SAN disk. ／ Big HDD storage VPSes (ref) from $2.42/month per TB. ／ Storage dedis and hybrid VPS (SSD + HDD) are there as well.
Do not go for the Opteron x Series, those are trash.
8-16 GB RAM
4 x 1/2/3/4 TB sata Drives, any flavor sincerely.
1 x SSD 240 GB for boot
And install a TrueNas Scale on it, do a ZFS raid Z1 on the 4 drives, or a raid 10 but that will only give you half of the total space, altho I would do this with SATA mix-Models Drives.
This way you have a nice NAS that can actually do PLEX ( via plugin, free ) 4K local stream, also a file server, and some containers are also possible depending on the RAM used.
I had a G8 at home for years, never did it let me down. It is also pretty queiet and has a low poer consumption. ( ~25-35W the unit + 8-10W per drive added ) Max it will do is a 75-85W at the wall.
EDIT:
For Home Use, CMR/SMR makes no difference, you can even go with 5400 RPM drives as they do not heat that much. Heat is the killer of spinning rust, aka HDD.
Any drive can do 120 MB/SEC that can max out a 1 GBPS ETH link ( 1 GBPS = 125 MB/SEC )
I would use at least 2 drives in mirror. Just do not go for the 2/4 bay nas models, they usually suck at performance CPU wise and are nut as flexible in OS as a Micro SRV.
Do not go for the Opteron x Series, those are trash.
8-16 GB RAM
4 x 1/2/3/4 TB sata Drives, any flavor sincerely.
1 x SSD 240 GB for boot
And install a TrueNas Scale on it, do a ZFS raid Z1 on the 4 drives, or a raid 10 but that will only give you half of the total space, altho I would do this with SATA mix-Models Drives.
This way you have a nice NAS that can actually do PLEX ( via plugin, free ) 4K local stream, also a file server, and some containers are also possible depending on the RAM used.
I had a G8 at home for years, never did it let me down. It is also pretty queiet and has a low poer consumption. ( ~25-35W the unit + 8-10W per drive added ) Max it will do is a 75-85W at the wall.
EDIT:
For Home Use, CMR/SMR makes no difference, you can even go with 5400 RPM drives as they do not heat that much. Heat is the killer of spinning rust, aka HDD.
Any drive can do 120 MB/SEC that can max out a 1 GBPS ETH link ( 1 GBPS = 125 MB/SEC )
I would use at least 2 drives in mirror. Just do not go for the 2/4 bay nas models, they usually suck at performance CPU wise and are nut as flexible in OS as a Micro SRV.
CHEERS!
Hey there,
Thanks for the reply, but this is overkill for me. I'm happy with the Futro as is and was also onna budget, so was just looking for a drive. Maybe one day, I'll upgrade the whole setup, but not for now :P
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Considering the options, @Ympker has mentioned, there was not much choice, hence my "the difference is subtle" above:
2.5" WD Blue of the same capacities are SMR either.
IIRC, you need to go either "1TB or less" or even "500 GB or less", depending on the series.
For Seagate, the only 2.5-inch CMR option is Exos HDDs.
☰ Probably the best Black Friday storage offers — AMD EPYC VDSes with NVMe slices (ref) from 250GB to 4TB and 500GB–10TB SAN disk. ／ Big HDD storage VPSes (ref) from $2.42/month per TB. ／ Storage dedis and hybrid VPS (SSD + HDD) are there as well.
@Ympker
Do you have a small budget for this? I read that your backup NAS died also.
If you can spare some extra cash, I would do the following
HP Mini Server G10
https://www.ebay.com/itm/305404371916?itmmeta=01HYFZC8X85H27BT2VBYR3R482&hash=item471b84e3cc:g:g-oAAOSwPhhmJhq~&itmprp=enc:AQAJAAAAwEdPzLCl2RLz0QJrkc+5DkOlxuJ3w3d1RFTItHIT0g1U2ZL1sF9S9uDlHV+JU4NCcNwl4RlM5+p9TqhCnPq9m0fS1YHgPgondn9+REGBiciGQNaJqvR+kMDfi63cH3/ggCYM21GPiaKqx+zU+0gFOlBT7--rE/DqqmE1lEGCCkehBsQL+nK8GGVrjdCglahkXckTY6DInxx6YmXeq9K+2ttt5hCbruhzvP0rwSfIa0Pyj7RHciz5YjiA9c35x4Jo7A==|tkp:Bk9SR9iOsf_zYw
Or a Microserver G8 with Intel Xeon
https://www.ebay.com/itm/404982459374?itmmeta=01HYG01XPRN4W851MK0FBT6N7S&hash=item5e4ad5ebee:g:8okAAOSwrhxlwiBr&itmprp=enc:AQAJAAAAwJcW6OJZQvGO+wi3Dcj4eRanoo8DU8/5qDz7YgE7iYj7GC6VjNFfvVl/2cXfD+izmbcmdl+7VVlU8zs8p8noHsKZ+wGsDH4ECdeUF59OAyv7VLzN6PS6VHkmvWW7AHVAOg/RfVPK9nGKgB15t46hRle9LRq0CUOOXjBWZxc14XyZnY+XYJPZzjxXeBygK/Lfh8f+mmlUjrTkUv/EWZs0gBHtImmtGUTgfonNQGfLb6zS7F+D3s+FtaM0A2vIvVY2rA==|tkp:Bk9SR7zbh4D0Yw
Do not go for the Opteron x Series, those are trash.
8-16 GB RAM
4 x 1/2/3/4 TB sata Drives, any flavor sincerely.
1 x SSD 240 GB for boot
And install a TrueNas Scale on it, do a ZFS raid Z1 on the 4 drives, or a raid 10 but that will only give you half of the total space, altho I would do this with SATA mix-Models Drives.
This way you have a nice NAS that can actually do PLEX ( via plugin, free ) 4K local stream, also a file server, and some containers are also possible depending on the RAM used.
I had a G8 at home for years, never did it let me down. It is also pretty queiet and has a low poer consumption. ( ~25-35W the unit + 8-10W per drive added ) Max it will do is a 75-85W at the wall.
EDIT:
For Home Use, CMR/SMR makes no difference, you can even go with 5400 RPM drives as they do not heat that much. Heat is the killer of spinning rust, aka HDD.
Any drive can do 120 MB/SEC that can max out a 1 GBPS ETH link ( 1 GBPS = 125 MB/SEC )
I would use at least 2 drives in mirror. Just do not go for the 2/4 bay nas models, they usually suck at performance CPU wise and are nut as flexible in OS as a Micro SRV.
CHEERS!
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Hey there,
Thanks for the reply, but this is overkill for me. I'm happy with the Futro as is and was also onna budget, so was just looking for a drive. Maybe one day, I'll upgrade the whole setup, but not for now :P
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