reviewgeek The Most Reliable HDDs for Your Plex Server, Based on Backblaze Stats

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Very few HDDs are made to handle the continuous usage, heat, and vibration of a Plex server. And that’s a huge problem. Replacing a failed drive takes time and money, especially if you don’t have redundancies in place. Thankfully, a new report from Backblaze reveals which popular HDDs perform the best in a real testing environment; its cloud data center.

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Cool, looks like my 14TB WDC drives aren't too terribly bad for that usage according to their charts.  Good to know!

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Im not sure if mine are on their as I do not recall the specific model number, I just know that I use Seagate Ironwolf drives for my storage applications.

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1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Im not sure if mine are on their as I do not recall the specific model number, I just know that I use Seagate Ironwolf drives for my storage applications.

Just remember, if the data doesn't exist in 3 separate places at one time it doesn't exist.

 

I forget who said that originally, but good words to live by.  I'm guilty of not doing it myself, but meh.  It's not like I can't recover things off a RAID array.  Anything on my PC isn't really THAT important anyway.  I'd be crushed, absolutely.  But I'd still get up the next morning.

Edited February 4, 2022 by pioneerisloud

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2 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

Just remember, if the data doesn't exist in 3 separate places at one time it doesn't exist.

 

I forget who said that originally, but good words to live by.  I'm guilty of not doing it myself, but meh.  It's not like I can't recover things off a RAID array.  Anything on my PC isn't really THAT important anyway.  I'd be crushed, absolutely.  But I'd still get up the next morning.

Oh don't you worry, I have backups of my backups. I don't leave things to chance. 

 

If I lost my data, I would feel naked for it and the inconvenience.... would be insane but yeah I wouldn't launch myself into the sun. 

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Thanks for the post, interesting for sure. For my bulk storage, I've settled on 14tb easystore/mybook shucks for now with 2 parity disks. I use UnRaid for this type of storage, my parity calculations are usually 30-34hrs now.. Wonder what those shiny 20tb drives would be for LTTs new PB server.

Edited February 6, 2022 by SamsTechStuff

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9 hours ago, SamsTechStuff said:

Thanks for the post, interesting for sure. For my bulk storage, I've settled on 14tb easystore/mybook shucks for now with 3 parity disks. I use UnRaid for this type of storage, my parity calculations are usually 30-34hrs now.. Wonder what those shiny 20tb droves would be for LTTs new PB server.

Good old schuking. I have done that in the past but only when I was certain I was going to get a good drive as some of the OEM drives are really poor.