Any reason these renewed drives from Amazon would be a bad choice? Planning on getting 4 of them to build a NAS and maybe hosting jellyfin.

  • watr@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Aren’t surveillance-rated drives a terrible investment for any long-term storage system (long-term being more than 3yrs)

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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      11 months ago

      This is a good point. Surveillance drives are built with the expectation that they will be writing in video data from a security camera system 24/7, so they’re optimized for a constant data write and less so for read, and really not intended for general-purpose random read/write actions. It’ll still work, but not as well as a NAS drive would.

    • horse1066@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      You’d think so, but I’ve got a 2nd hand purple 4tb surveillance something and it’s been fine for years. I’ve also a bunch of 2nd hand Enterprise(?) 500Gbs that are older than Noah.

      That said I keep anything important on a new 4Tb Red