From nobody Wed Jun 29 00:51:03 2022 X-Original-To: questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AC986BA4A for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (static-71-163-255-121.washdc.fios.verizon.net [71.163.255.121]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail", Issuer "mail" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4LXjZR0mQxz4x9N for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from tripel.monochrome.org (tripel.monochrome.org [192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 25T0p3FB062210; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:51:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:51:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill To: infoomatic cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware recommendation In-Reply-To: <345291c2-0820-b391-f035-8d68b3345dda@gmx.at> Message-ID: References: <25275.14490.634554.58598@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <345291c2-0820-b391-f035-8d68b3345dda@gmx.at> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4LXjZR0mQxz4x9N X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of chris@monochrome.org has no SPF policy when checking 71.163.255.121) smtp.mailfrom=chris@monochrome.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.11 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[chris]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.995]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[monochrome.org]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.98)[0.983]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROMTLD(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[questions]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmx.at]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:701, ipnet:71.163.0.0/16, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, infoomatic wrote: > On 28.06.22 19:21, Robert Huff wrote >> A disk drive on one of my machines is dying. >> I'd like to replace it with a _reliable_ (the old one lasted 10+ >> years at moderate loads) consumer-grade SATA II or higher drive of at >> least 500 gbytes. > > In the light of the link to backblaze, my mail seems quite useless ... > I have had great experience with WD red with conventional magnet > recording - be warned my number of disks I can compare is much lower > ;-) However, I would go with a prosumer/enterprise-grade SSD. For spinning metal, I'll second the mention of WD Red. They are claimed to be "NAS grade." I've been using them for years with no issues. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org