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Seagate Ironwolf or WD red plus drives (pawb.social)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ive been wanting to get proper storage for my lil server running nextcloud and a couple other things, but nc is the main concern. Its currently running on an old ssd ive had laying around so i would want a more reliable longer term solution.

So thinking of a raid1 (mirror) hdd setup, with two 5400rpm 8tb drives, bringing the choices down to ironwolf or wd red plus, which both are in the same price range.

Im currently biased towards the ironwolfs because they are slightly cheaper and have a cool print on them, but from reddit threads ive seen that wd drives are generally quieter, which currently is a concern since the server is in my bedroom.

Does anyone have experience with these two drives and or know better solutions?

Oh and for the os, being a simple linux server, is it generally fine to have that on a separate drive, an ssd in this case?

Thanks! :3

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Backblaze reports HDD reliability data on their blog. Never rely on anecdata!

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And as backblaze says themselves every time, this data is not.the complete truth either, they have large sample size but this sample size is still too small to large claims about reliability. Especially about brand reliability.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I havent used Seagate in 15 years, so maybe theyve improved, but the only hard drives I've ever had fail on me have all been Seagate.

Never had any other drive hard fail. The ones that did were always Seagate.

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