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?

    • ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      I got a set off ebay, Jesus christ they’re loud. I ended up returning them cause I could hear the grinding through my whole house

      • Lem453@lemmy.caEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I have 3 14tb exos drives. I have them in a Roswell 4u hotseap chassis. Running unraid.

        It’s nearly inaudible over the very reasonable case fans. No grinding noises. I can hear the heads moving a bit but it’s quite subtle. Not sure why people have such different experiences with these

        • czardestructo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          I noticed when they first spin up on boot they do some sub routine and they’re pretty loud and chatty. First time I heard it I was spooked but it worked fine and I just use it for backup so I just moved on. Once it’s on and in normal operation it’s like any other disk I’ve used over the decades. Nothing as loud as an old scsci disk or a quantum fireball.

    • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      11 months ago

      Aren’t they meant to go in data centers? You wouldn’t want a drive in a data center to spin down. That introduces latency in getting the data off of them.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
          36·
          11 months ago

          Data centers replace drives when they fail and that’s about it. They don’t care much about SMART data.

          • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            10·
            11 months ago

            We used to use smart data to predict when to order new drives and on really bad looking days increase our redundancy. Nothing like getting a bad series of drives for PB of data to make you paranoid I guess.

            • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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              11 months ago

              What kind of attributes did you find relevant? I imagine the 19x codes…

              I’ve read the Blackblaze statistics and I’m using a tool (Scrutiny) that takes those stats into account for computing failure probability, but at the end of the day the most reliable tell is when a drive gets kicked out of an array (and/or can’t pass the long smart test anymore).

              Meanwhile, I have drives with “lesser” attributes sitting on warning values (like command timeout) and ofc I monitor them and have good drives on standby, but they still seem to chug along fine for now.

    • czardestructo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I have an Exos x16 and x18 drive and they both spin down fine in Debian using hdparm. I use them for cold storage and they’re perfectly adequate.