merompetehlaJun 2, 2024

what hardware should I buy for storage purposes? what brands?

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what hardware should I buy for storage purposes? what brands? - Lemmy

I own several external 2.5’’ HDDs on the 1 TB range where I save my data. Samsung has worked well for me, but now I need more space. One option would be to buy an external SSD instead of HDD. Another would be to get an external NVME, but so far I haven’t found cases for them. Nowadays we even have 1 TB flash drives, should I get one of these instead? I could also buy 2 0.5 TB micro SD cards instead. So many options make it difficult to decide. What brands and technologies do you recommend? Software is going to be debian based.

Show threadboredsquirrel (he)Jun 2, 2024

HDDs last best when not moved, as they dont lose the data that much when you dont use them. But they turn around, 24/7. It is insane. They use lots of electricity, produce heat, noise, and wear out without you doing anything.

SSDs have little tear from just being connected to a machine, they just dont do much. To my knowledge they also last longer a lot of times. But they are not as good for permanent storage and should be connected to power every half year or so.

I would always go with normal SATA SSDs, cheap, cool, just work.

NVMEs are so damn hot, small, expensive, often I dont see the reason.

Show threadOneThereJun 3, 2024
You should look at power settings. HDDs can power down when not being read from or written to. It extends the time you wait when you need the data on them but can save on their lifetime / electric / heat.
Show threadDaPorkchop_ [any]
I wouldn’t be so sure about the lifetime - spinning up and spinning down put far more stress on the drive components than simply spinning at a constant rate.
Jun 3, 2024 at 10:35pmWeb
Show threadOneThereJun 4, 2024
Depends on how frequently you’re accessing the data. If it’s infrequently used, then spin up/down can be beneficial. But yes, you raise a good point. Thank you. :)