I found this its the cheapest 10TB Exos drive on Newegg and looking to buy 4 of them. I will be putting them in my NAS that I use for my media library and pc backups. The price I’m posting this is $130, I’m also looking similar Exos drives that are $250 is there a difference? Should I shell up for the more expensive drives?

  • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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    11 months ago

    It’s just the cheapest type of drive there is. The use case is in large scale RAIDs where one disk failing isn’t a big issue. They tend to have decent warranty but under heavy load they’re not expected to last multiple years. Personally I use drives like this but I make sure to have them in a RAID and with backup, anything else would be foolish. Do also note that expensive NAS drives aren’t guaranteed to last either so a RAID is always recommended.

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    11 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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