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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    Damn, firstshop actually has!
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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    If only I could find stock to buy..
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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    Based on the backblaze criteria, time to replace..
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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    Here is the smart info that backblaze monitor: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/
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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    Very good point, I actually have a NAS just sitting off in the safe... Using gigabit lan that would be the ideal combination, ie use my NAS as an actual NAS and not as an offline backup. Think I should rather use a portable HDD for offline locked up backup.
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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    Agreed, the downside or a surveillance HDD is the firmware optimisation for sequential reading and writing when a typical NAS application probably does more random reading and writing, there will be a slight performance disadvantage. I intend to pair the wd red with a ssd, so the slightly slower...
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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    The downside of using a NAS drive is the firmware does not retry or retries less times to read an unreadable sector because it expects to default to RAID.
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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    I understand that NAS drives have a higher mechanical integrity, ie extra spindle support, better vibration mitigation and higher vibration tolerance. Unfortunately guys like backblaze don't buy and test all drives.
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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    WD30EFRX, I think is the way I'm intending to go.
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    Mechanical HDD recommendations

    Hi all, time to upgrade my desktop and replace a dead drive in my htpc. I've been reading up on these NAS type drives. I'm looking for something with higher reliability, absolute speed is not the most important. Seagate ironwolf or ironwolf pro or wd red?
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