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Back in the day when I used HDDs, while I had a few drives fail, no particular one of the major brands had more failures than the other. (Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Samsung) So if you're going the HDD route any one should suit your purpose.
A couple of HDDs for your perusal.
$219 WD 10 tb
$300 Seagate 22tb

I have never had an ssd or m.2 drive fail. Again, all I use are the major brands. I've steered clear of the off-breeds.
 

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glasskuter said:
Back in the day when I used HDDs, while I had a few drives fail, no particular one of the major brands had more failures than the other. (Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Samsung) So if you're going the HDD route any one should suit your purpose.
A couple of HDDs for your perusal.
$219 WD 10 tb
$300 Seagate 22tb

I have never had an ssd or m.2 drive fail. Again, all I use are the major brands. I've steered clear of the off-breeds.
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Thank you very much for the suggestions! This is very helpful.
 

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For those capacities, 10TB+you are stuck with 3.5" mechanical HDDs, They are slow so USB3 connection is still faster than disks themselves so it's enough, All HDDs are "major manufacturer", there's only few left. Enclosure manufacturers you have few more but they all use HDDs from those few left. Those enclosures are relatively simple devices, just SATA3 to USB3. Because those HDDs are 3.5" format they all use power adapter to 12v.
Or you can put one together by getting HDD and interface separately.
 

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hdmi said:
🗸

Amazon.com: CENMATE Aluminum Dual Bay Hard Drive RAID Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5" SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.0, Tool-Free HDD Enclosure, 4 Modes(Support RAID 1/0/JBOD/NORMAL) : Electronics

Amazon.com: CENMATE Aluminum Dual Bay Hard Drive RAID Enclosure with Cooling Fan for 2.5“/3.5" SATA HDD/SSD with USB A/C 3.0, Tool-Free HDD Enclosure, 4 Modes(Support RAID 1/0/JBOD/NORMAL) : Electronics
www.amazon.com
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Lol, a it overboard, that could run NASA.
 

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CountMike said:
Lol, a it overboard, that could run NASA.
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Well actually the 37 TB external storage that you can see in my specs consists of 16 × 3.5″ HDDs. Each one is in a separate enclosure.
1 × 1 TB​
4 × 1.5 TB​
8 × 2 TB​
2 × 3 TB​
1 × 8 TB​

HDDs.webp
 

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gunrunnerjohn said:
My link works fine for me. :unsure: Yes, the GB was just a typo, but obviously the 20TB was what I intended.

View attachment 137597 Interesting that this is 20T A 16T wd red is nearly 500 even if you have a NAS with error correction and each drive is mirrored, a drive like this would be good for offsite storage. A nas does all it can to protect your data but its all in one place and fragile both physically and technically. But something about this drive does not make sense, why is it only 229 when a 8T is that price. Seagate sells a : Seagate Backup Plus Portable 4TB External Hard Drive HDD – Black USB 3.0 for PC Laptop for 200 OK wait when you actually look at this drive on amazon and click on it again the cost is nearly 700 When I first searched amazon for this drive it did come up with that price of 229 but now I can not find that. I suppose if it does show up with that price again dump it in the CART!

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Prices went up about 3X in a year, it was actually $229 when I posted the link. :lmao:

I bought this Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVME Drive for $259 a year ago, now it's $770!
 

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    PC/Desktop
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    Home Brew
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    Intel Core i5 14400
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    Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX
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That's what AI (the buildout) will do to you... current SSDs (in any form) are off the table these days.
 

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Intel Core i7-10700
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Froggie said:
That's what AI (the buildout) will do to you... current SSDs (in any form) are off the table these days.
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Fortunately, I stocked up last year and won't be shopping for storage for some time.
 

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    Win 11 Pro 25H2, Build 26200.8737Intel Core i5 1450064GB DDR4GeForce RTX 4060
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    Win 11 Pro 25H2, Build 26200.8737
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brew
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 14500
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte B760M G P WIFI
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    64GB DDR4
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce RTX 4060
    Sound Card
    Chipset Realtek
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    LG 45" Ultragear, Acer 24" 1080p
    Screen Resolution
    5120x1440, 1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Crucial P310 2TB 2280 PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD (O/S)
    Silicon Power 2TB US75 NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 2280 SSD (backup)
    Crucial BX500 2TB 3D NAND (2nd backup)
    Seagate 4TB Ironwolf, rotating HDD archive files
    External off-line backup Drives: 2 NVMe 4TB drives in external enclosures
    PSU
    Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 750W
    Case
    LIAN LI LANCOOL 216 E-ATX PC Case
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    Lots of fans!
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000
    Mouse
    Logitech G305
    Internet Speed
    Verizon FiOS 1GB
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Malware Bytes & Windows Defender Security

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    Win 11 Pro 25H2, Build 26200.8655Intel Core i5 1440032GB DDR5Intel 700 Embedded GPU
    Operating System
    Win 11 Pro 25H2, Build 26200.8655
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brew
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 14400
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX
    Memory
    32GB DDR5
    Graphics card(s)
    Intel 700 Embedded GPU
    Sound Card
    Realtek Embedded
    Monitor(s) Displays
    27" HP 1080p
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Crucial P310 2TB 2280 PCIe Gen4 eD NAND PCIe SSD
    Samsung EVO 990 2TB NVMe Gen4 SSD
    Samsung 2TB SATA SSD
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    Thermaltake Smart BM3 650W
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    Okinos Micro ATX Case
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    Fans
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    Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000
    Mouse
    Logitech G305
    Internet Speed
    Verizon FiOS 1GB
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Malware Bytes & Windows Defender Security
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    Acemagic Vista Mini PC V1 (Intel N150, 16GB RAM, 1TB NVMe, Win11 Pro)
    HP ENVY h8-1540t, (24GB RAM, 2TB SSD, 2TB HDD, Win11 Pro)
Froggie said:
current SSDs (in any form) are off the table these days.
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SSD and NVME disks use the "principle of an electric capacitor" to store information, and therefore, when the power is turned off, the information on such disks will turn into a "pumpkin" in 1-2 years.
Hard drives (HD) use the "magnet principle", and therefore, when the power is turned off, the information on such disks is stored for 5-10 years without problems.
I only use HD "WD Gold" server hard drives.. it never breaks.
A good power supply is very important. I use Seasonic Gold power supplies
 

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