The big hard drive topic

[jellynoob1994]

hello,

im going swap all of my drives before they all fail 

should i go "refurbished" or buy new

and what drive's are you rocking

[TheDreadPirate]

Only go with refurbished if they come with a proper manufacturers warranty. If they don't have a multi-year warranty, they probably weren't properly recertified.

I personally like WD Red Pros. But Seagate Ironwolfs are also a solid choice. Whatever you choose should be a NAS or enterprise drive, since they are designed to run 24/7 and in RAID arrays.

[crobibero]

I purchased a bunch of Exos X20 from https://serverpartdeals.com/ about 2 years ago and they’ve been running great.

[bitmap]

Code:

bitmap@chromaserv:re-encode$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA HGST HDS724040AL (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 4001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
1      1049kB  4001GB  4001GB  ext4
Model: ATA ST14000VN0008-2J (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 14.0TB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
1      1049kB  14.0TB  14.0TB  ext4        xtor
Model: ATA ST6000DM003-2CY1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 6001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
1      1049kB  6001GB  6001GB  ext4
Model: ATA WDC WD101EFBX-68 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 10.0TB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
1      1049kB  10.0TB  10.0TB  ext4
Model: ATA ST14000VN0008-2J (scsi)
Disk /dev/sde: 14.0TB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
1      1049kB  14.0TB  14.0TB  ext4        luxe
Model: ATA WDC WD80EFZZ-68B (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdf: 8002GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
1      1049kB  8002GB  8002GB  ext4
Model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
1      1049kB  1128MB  1127MB  fat32              boot, esp
2      1128MB  1000GB  999GB  ext4
Model: ATA WDC WD80EFZZ-68B (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdg: 8002GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
1      1049kB  8002GB  8002GB  ext4
Model: WD easystore 264D (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdh: 14.0TB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name    Flags
1      1049kB  14.0TB  14.0TB  ext4        storage

I have four additional drives that are probably gonna have to live in the storage controller I have, but I haven't connected them back after doing a re-casing and migration to 24.04 LTS.

[Jamie Chapman]

I'm a fan of Seagate Ironwolf Pro drives. We use them in enterprise NVR setups for our clients, as well as for continuous backups, and they work really well with constant reads/writes over the long term (8+ years in some instances). They also have a 5-year warranty.

[jellynoob1994]

hi 

I purchased a bunch of Exos X20 from https://serverpartdeals.com/ about 2 years ago and they’ve been running great.

and no bad sectors or didnt you check ???


thats why i sparked this post i hear very mixed story's with "refurbished" or even brand new disks just flat out failing within a few hours or days 

and im in for the long term 

i do have a cold storage nas thats only powerd up when needed and those drives are 10 years old now (just some simple no name brand drives)

but now with my new home-server i want some how do i say..... bulletproof but not balls to the wall expensive drives ( yeah yeah i know no disk is bullet proof https://youtu.be/YvMpXv5U7R8?si=nu2oAq8ZzdEcZR_y)

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Hard drive reliability follows a bathtub curve.

If it doesn't fail for you on initial use, that's a good sign.
If it doesn't fail after a few days/weeks/months, then the drive most likely will not fail anytime soon.

Of course there are exceptions to this.

[txhammer68]

I don't have a system with raid support so i went with the Samsung SSD 8Tb for my media storage
 a bit pricey i know, but i have had bad luck with HDD's in the past and no raid support so no backups.
My hope is that this drive will last 10-15 years and from what i have read is that even when an SSD drive fails they still work in read only mode, so i could always copy to a new drive in the far future.