External hard drive - recommendations?

**digitaldeath** · 11-29-2016, 11:40 PM

If I'm the top tgr avatar and tgr the top ski porn producer I guess that makes me...

**digitaldeath** · 11-29-2016, 11:45 PM

Shroom should follow up any minute now

**shroom** · 11-30-2016, 12:14 AM

can't even pwn Halo on that b

weak

**DJSapp** · 11-30-2016, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by Swine

I got this exact setup for my work. We needed remote access and Synology has pretty good software to get it done. Red drives seem to be the most reliable for storage. It was easy. It works. I had better shit to do than cobble together enclosures or do more research.

Having said that my OWC Mercury Elite Pro is chugging along just fine at home. But drives do just shit the bed from time to time.

It works well, and combine it with a weekly automatic backup to Amazon glacier for deep storage if they fail. Best $2 a month you can spend to sleep easy that your data is safe out in the cloud if both drives go sour. Yeah, they'll charge more to pull it out, but at that point it's worth it, and dead simple to setup.

**Bobby Stainless** · 11-30-2016, 05:08 AM

I have a Transcend. It's rubberized and rugged as shit!

I could take it in the back country, if there were computers there.

**ex-powderbroker** · 11-30-2016, 07:32 AM

Also curious about what owc is going to do for you...

**Flyoverland Captive** · 11-30-2016, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by ml242

Also curious about what owc is going to do for you...

I'm sending the drive back to them (it's one year old, and has a three year warranty); they will inspect it, and probably send me a new one. We shall see.

**k2skier112** · 11-30-2016, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by highangle

Cost per TB in mass storage. My Solaris rpool is a 3-way mirror of overprovisioned ESXi datashares on 3 SSDs, but it's only 100GB. But my 17TB of lossless music and family video sits on rotating rust on another pool of the same Solaris system, and gets block-encrypted on AWS as backup.

SSDs also make great cache devices for large ZFS storage pools. So if you're running a VM in your laptop off a folder on your NAS that is cached with a SSD, the VM will boot and run at SSD speeds. (Yes, you can cache a specific folder like that with ZFS.)

And if you're slinging big data in your bedroom and doing a lot of sync writes, slc nand is really good for intent logs (aka power-safe write cache).

But an SSD doesn't stream a movie to a home theater or upload shit to Crashplan any faster or better than a RAID array of HDDs, so why spend the $$?

It's about failure rates with mechanical HDD's with me. I've had a couple fail, it's worth it to me for the extra cost, time is money.