5 tb HDD, safe or no?

5 tb HDD, safe or no?

idk lol

It's a bomb!

I have a 4TB external that's been going for about 5 years no problem.

just get 5 1TB drives

My 4tb seagate internal 3.5" is only now slowing down after 6 years, swapped for a firecuda

I think after the 3s showed themselves to be ticking timebombs, everyone just keeps a wide berth from odd-TB drives.

I stay away from odd numbered storage, unless it's 1tb. Get a 4, 6 or 8tb

But in all seriousness get a 5tb WD Gold 3.5" hdd if you want quality. I make RAID 10 servers with 4 of them in each and theyre really stable and fast

>I think after the 3s showed themselves to be ticking timebombs, everyone just keeps a wide berth from odd-TB drives.

You mean 1.5, that was industry wide 1.5's where fail rates were in the high 40%'s

since then not a single drive has gone over a 5% fail rate

Yeah, you're right, it was the 1.5 TB drives. Bad times.

>that level of autism

What matters is number of platters, their density and how much of their surface is used.
Not some number that is the end result of all that.

here was my experiance

bought a 1.5 because fuck me thats alot of space and its cheap

a month later I needed to do a format, and I always do that on fresh drives so I risk looseing no data, the 1.5 is on fucking clearance, FUCK YEA

and then I ended up replaceing those 2 drives 6 fucking times in 4 months before they stopped sending my failing ones, I only tuned them off and took them out after 3-5 years of service because I replaced a 250gb, a 300gb, a 750gb and a 1.5 (at this point the 1.5's were mirroring each other,) with 1 4tb drive

I added another 4tb drive for games a year or so later

and with my new build I have 1nvme boot, an 8tb (all the 4tb drive shit is on it and i have a psudo backup) the game drive, the 4tb game drive, and a 3tb I just got for images, im in the process of moving the images to the 3tb right now.

If prices go down, i'm going to give myself a 10-12 tb birthday present, and set the 8tb up as a live backup drive that will backup till it cant backup no more, and it will be moved to cold storage.

the 1.5tb drives that came out had a near if not higher then 50% fail rate,

usually there are 4 options for drives,

1 platter, 2 platter, 3platter and 4 platter, at least this was the case up to 4tb, and every time, the 3 platter had a fairly bad fail rate.

current drives all have a sub 5% many sub 3% fail rate, some of the hdd brands like hitachi, their 4tb drive was 1-1.5% fail rate.

There is some truth, but really, anymore the hdds are so good it doesn't matter brand or platter amount, its still always recommended to have backups, but yea.

just make sure drives youre getting is from new batches. check the manufacturers website whats latest
theres still huge number of old batches

Yes it is. Pic related is a chaddrive

>Not a power of two
Kys

in any case new 10tb enterprise grade drive is safer than old consumer drive.

Safe. It's a shit ton of storage. You can download a lot of games, and movies. Get a SSD to boot your system on. That shits blazing fast.

None of them are a power of two anymore, a 2 "TB" hard drive is always a 1.81TB hard drive.

thats because the marketing people want to use the bigger numbers and os devs wants to use other units for whatever reason.

OS devs use the accurate numbers in GB, storage device manufacturers usually use GiB since it looks bigger and normies can't tell the difference. At least CPU and DRAM manufacturers don't do that.

You got it the reverse.

The large quantity of data compressed into a space so small means the pressure inside can implode your room. Enjoy getting shredded by your porn faggot

very dangerous

In RAID-1, sure.