Hard Drives and Backups?

[kbeck 75]

2 questions both are related.......

1. Have not bought any hard drives in a year. WOW. Even remanufactured drives are twice what a good drive was. Non-standard suggestions for finding a deal? Which leads me to.....

2. Do you back up all your data? I currently have a CENMATE 8 bay external enclosure with 6 x 8TB, 1x18TB, 1x20TB. Plus have a duplicate box I keep offsite with a duplicate mirrored set. It's awful tempting to use those mirrored drives but I know 1 will crap out eventually.

[vincen 89]

Hi

For medias servers it has always been a complicated subject the backup considering size of volumes most of time. On mine I have always used raidz2 to minimize risks of major failures because volume is way too large to be "backupable" (300To). Now with insane prices of hard drive and their lack of avalaibility, I have decided to give up and shut down my server that I was running since 20 years as it's no more manageable now with Hard drives unable to source plus the insane prices of them

[RanmaCanada 583]

With current media costs, it's all YOLO.

[Apotropaic 75]

I’ve been waiting for what feels like years for a good deal on some 8tb drives, saw a seagate external drive 16tb for £299 on Amazon a few weeks back and ordered two.

Took the risk they could be opened up and installed in my NAS, so far so good but warranty might be tricky to deal with.

The other alternative I was going to look into was refurbished SAS drives, you’ll need a controller of course but those drives are a lot cheaper.