>he/she/it doesn't colour code their hard drives
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Why would I want to do that? Red for porn, Blue for porn, Yellow for...trying to remember... ah, porn
Why are different colors so much more expensive? It's just all marketing and the are all the same under the hood, right?
what the fuck is that cyan HDD? Is that actually a thing?
They're not all the same.
IIRC, purple is for surveillance and is made to be specifically written to 24/7. \
Red is for NAS, Gold is the top of line stuff for enterprises, Blue is for normal people, Black is a better blue, and Green uses less power and is usually slower.
no.
>red has vibration sensors and is designed to run 24/7. they are mostly 5200 rpm, finding the 7200s can be tricky. Probably loud and will have 5 second ticks to distribute lube.
>purple doesnt do error checking and isnt suitable for data storage, its meant to record security video where it doesnt fucking matter if a single frame is garbage because storing the next frames to come is more important.
>blue and black are the same damn thing iirc, black just has retard tax.
>gold is fancy industry version of red that is probably the dame damn thing. Also noisy as hell. probably loud and will have 5 second ticks to distribute lube.
>green, nolonger in production, suposed to be low power. Ive never researched it and until I do will regard it as a fruity blue. Used one daily for years, has 3-4 years power on time, no errors.
>archive drives are not meant to be used frequently, read cold storage, and are often shingled and will fuck up if you treat them like a normal drive (inb4 "i use an archive drive daily and it runs just fine)
>nas drives are intended for 24/7 power on, often have features like vibration sensors to anticipate the vibrations from other drives to help extend the life of the drive.
new style label, they probably just had a homosexual in the marketing department that adjusted the blue to another blue. We probably just havnt seent hem because anyone that knows drives enough to identify the color codes is most likely beyond buying blues at this point and therefore havnt seen a new blue.
black has more cache, but it's retarded buy a black one when you can buy a much better SSD at that price.
Thanks for the information. I was thinking about getting a backup solution because i would be really fucked if my ssd somehow breaks. Reds are most likely an overkill for me so ill go with the blue ones.
>black has more cache,
noted.
The issue with ssds though is they are "fast" because of the buffer which is only a couple gb.
My samsung ssd shit itself after only less than a year, and not I cant transfer bigger stuff without my speed dropping from >500mbps to literally 4mpbs in just a minute.
It still works fine for daily tasks but when I start moving real data I now have to spend hours waiting on a transfer to finish instead of just a couple minutes.
If you're just a casual then I would agree blues are the best route for you.
wd and hgst are both good.
Be sure to keep at least 2 copies of your data using different drives.
Also raid is a meme when it comes to backup solutions. raid is only for constant availability aka no down time.
a normal hard drive will suffice
just keep a replacement lying around for when one of them fails.
consider:
1) probability that your SSD dies in any given hour (1 e-6)
2) probability that your HDD dies in any given hour (1 e-5)
3) probability that your SSD and HDD die within the same hour (1 e-6 * 1 e-5 = 1e-11)
that's once in 11 million years btw.
>Buy OCZ Vertex 4 back in 2012
>Still going strong, full SATA3 transfer rates
Sounds like you have a dud, or have manufacturers really cheaped out on the flash lately?
11 million hours.
Also once you pass 10TB per volume the chance of data error climbs. Raid is not a backup (unless you use it as a backup dump). Raid is meant to allow you time to make a backup before the whole data volume is lost for good. Also allows very high single volume creation capacity compared to single drive, even if said capacity drive exists. More copies of data you got, the better off you will be. The downer is that the larger the volume, the more time it takes to create/rebuild from failure/improper shutdown. So having several raid arrays wouldn't be a bad thing. Say 8-9TB per. You side step the 10TB error thing, the arrays wouldn't take long to build/rebuild, your data wouldn't be in a single volume basket so if one totally shit itself all is not lost. Using a UPS on a server is a smart investment. Helps keep your data error free which means your backup copies are more likely to be error free to.
once in 100 billion hours, tardlet.
you wanna work in IT?
>So having several raid arrays wouldn't be a bad thing.
If you're going to go down this route, it's also worth putting them in different machines, seeing as a bad PSU can take out multiple disks in an array.
raid is not backup. raid 10 IS multiple arrays.
have fun deleting all 10 copies of your file accidently and not noticing it until a month later when the sectors have been rewrote 100 times, or getting cryptolockered on all of your raid arrays and loosing all of your shit.
note: 10 copies is just a number I threw out and is unrelated to the raid 10 number, eat a dick autistic shit bags.
Should I get blue or black to store games and movies and shit on? Games that I play a lot will be on ssd
Do you want 2 or 5 years of warranty?
>bad psu
I suspect this is absolute marketing bullshit
any old 08/15 PSU will give you the same result, the only thing that will differ is efficiency.
if the PSU shorts, it shorts in the PSU, there is literally nothing that can cause an overvoltage, unless you fucked up the wires on purpose.
I remember hearing that seagate drives were unreliable a while ago; is that still the case?
>raid is not backup
It's not, but it's always going to be a complete pain to lose an array regardless. Also ZFS snapshots can be used as a very cheap way to limit straightforward human error.
I've seen a bad PSU take out a motherboard, and I've seen another one drop voltage just enough to start fucking up a disk array.
Not that it's worth it to get a 2400W gamer supply or some bullshit, but don't cheap out on the PSU either.
All drives are sensitive to vibrations. Seagate has had poor track record with certain drives being complete disasters though.
BackBlaze made report of their hard drive failures and Seagate performed poorly. I hear they were placed in poorly designed racks which caused their skyrocketed failure rates. It's also good to keep in mind that the report wasn't really a scientific test, but just a report. It's still better than nothing though.
Buy whatever has the longest warranty for your budget and make backups.
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tl;dr, don't yell at your SAN. It's sensitive and its feelings might get hurt.
S.M.A.R.T - Keeping an eye on this data logs is a good way to get a heads up on a failing drive. Sooner you see the warning signs and backup the data the better off you are long term. Sadly due to nature of hardware raid a lot of S.M.A.R.T software will only see the single "virtual" raid volume and not each drive in the array. So you gotta look at the logs your raid card generate. I'm not saying you gotta look every day but a quick glance once a week will be fine. Some software will highlight the core smart failure items for easy viewing. Some packages will even trigger your backup application to start if a drive failure is determined or send you an alert via text/e-mail
>drives vibrate
>drives are sensitive to vibration
it's literally like eating your own shit
Heat kills drives more than anything. Excessive heat takes life from your drives. your shortening the lifespan every time the temps go over 60C. More drives you add, the more heat gets generated. Doing shit that requires all drives to spin/operate at full speed only makes the temps climb higher. (Doing a full drive image backup for instance of a 7+TB array = 2+ days of non stop fully in use activity of the drives)
Which is why keeping a server is a basement is a good thing, cause basements tend to stay cooler than rest of a home.
>your shortening the lifespan every time the temps go over 60C
Most are technically rated for 60C, but aim below 40C if possible.
LEARN YOUR FUCKING PRONOUNS SHITLORD
buying WD HDD's...OP, try to have a little self respect...
>green, nolonger in production
Why not?
But I do.
they probably just include the "power saving" tech in blues. see also: WD renaming Purple NV to just Purple and getting rid of their desktop equivalent Purple. desktop drives are all shit anyway
I have a 1TB gold my pc makes no noise what so ever.
Please tell me where I can get a 6 TB SSD for under $300.
HI WD Shills.
I still own two 3TB SEAGATE barruada drives and they are working just fine enjoy buying hard drives everytime the warranty expires hahahahaha
its the new thing that large drives do.
hgst and wd reds and golds are reported to do this. iirc some guy and this one forum once claimed his blacks were doing it too.
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Guess you're lucky. Most of the drives that have lasted a decade for me are WD. The Seagates usually turn up with bad sectors after 3 or 4 years.
I have a 4TB gold and it's loud as fuck when it's actually doing the hard drive thing.
I rarely look at my drives. Why waste money and time on it when a 1$ sharpie does the job even better.
>they are mostly 5200 rpm, finding the 7200s can be tricky.
not exactly the reds are 5200rpm the red pros are 7200rpm
Green is OK for backup and will save energy. The drives aren't slower per-se, but they "power down" when inactive, and there's a latency, usually a couple of seconds for them to power back up when you need to write to them. Make them unsuitable for every day use but fine if you're just committing a backup to them every so often.
Also, don't rely on a single disk for backup anyway. Use RAID1 at minimum if you care enough about your data being lost.
WD has not made Green in a few years now. End up that "power down" feature was flawed and the earlier drives would "die" after about two years. All my early Greens have given out and got replaced.