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gedaliyah Aug 19, 2024

What's the difference between a $50 HDD and a $200 HDD?

What's the difference between a $50 HDD and a $200 HDD? - Lemmy.World

Beginner question: Searching for my first dedicated server setup, and I have no idea what to look for in a hard drive. I see a huge difference between drives of the same capacity, so what makes the difference? I am looking to eventually have a media server that can run “-arr” programs, Jellyfin, Immich, sync music, books, etc. What are the factors I should be paying attention to other than capacity? Is it a lot of branding and smoke and mirrors, or will I see a significant change in performance/reliability with different drives?

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slazer2au Aug 19, 2024

Rpm is a thing to look at. A 7,200 drive is faster than a 4,200, but slower than a 10,000.

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cmnybo Aug 19, 2024

10,000 and 15,000 rpm drives were made obsolete by SSDs and were discontinued several years ago. They are slower than many modern 7,200 rpm drives.

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Doombot1

As someone that works at a storage devices company - we do still manufacture 10K HDDs. They are faster than the 7200s of the same spec, by nature. All 2.5” drives for enterprise systems. And will actually continue selling them until ~2030. That said, they’re all but obsolete at this point, and aren’t really being developed on any more.