Long-lasting hard drive for server operation?
I built a server about 10 years ago, and it's been running in my basement ever since. I'm starting to worry about whether I should replace the hard drives (I think they're WD Green).
A quick search revealed that there are currently Seagate IronWolf drives available, for example, which are available as NAS drives and for 24/7 operation. The 5400 RPM speed is perfectly sufficient for me; I need more durability than performance.
Are they recommendable and what other (affordable) alternatives are currently available on the market?
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You can take those from Seagate or the ones from WD:
https://amzn.to/4dP1UN3
This is the Red, the NAS/Server variant of those.
If you want to spend more money, the Black would also be an option, but actually the Red should be enough.
It doesn’t talk about the Seagate either.
If the plates are mirrored/redundant, you can also wait until the first hops go.
And then WD Red has a very good reputation, which I also use and am satisfied.
For what you should do the current SMART values Continuous keep an eye on it.
I’ll leave my two NAS at least. a short test once a week and perform a long test once a month.
The IrgonWolf HDDs have a good reputation – I have used them myself.
5400 rpm can bend – there is no more.
had also searched and not found what – and the c’t-uplink had confirmed that some time ago.
I would generally stay at Seagate or Western Digital for hard drives.
Otherwise, use price search machines such as Geizhals.de.
Due to the declining HDD market (you don’t even get it in electronics markets), we all have to find out that correct special offers are probably rather rare.
Edit: Link added to c’t uplink.
Is Seagate, WD and Toshiba the hard drives.
Jup – and with Toshiba, unfortunately, I have had rather underwhelming experiences with performance. 😉
It’s clear – it’s just an anecdotal evidence. But who recommends what he is not convinced of? 🤷
Thanks for the memory – let this run once a month but have not looked on it for a long time (because I also do hard to really interpret the information in a targeted way).
ChatGPT is thanks, it is now recommended to replace the main plate, the backup plate and system SSD still seems to be great in shot 🙂
With self-construction servers, this is always as one thing as you want to set things up or handle.
With my QNAP-NAS, I set it up to send me all the warnings and errors by email.
Nevertheless, this is not a guarantee that protects against data loss.
Just at the beginning of the year, my previous NAS (RAID 5) smoked 2 HDDs at the same time.
If I hadn’t had a backup, well 6 TByte of data would have been lost.
WD-RED are also optimized for longevity for small private end customer systems.
“goods” would be the correct time from. 😉
HDDs are created only with a view of servers, as the normal market is increasingly towards SSD for desktop/tower.