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I don't know a whole lot about hard drives. The interwebs says it's ok but they also are trying to sell me a drive at the same time.

My current drive: 6TB WD60EZRX (used mostly for data backups). I've had the drive since ~2015...

Drive I'm looking at: 8TB Seagate ST8000NM0045 (I can get them for $70 each (open box)) they are Sata not SAS.

Related post: https://poal.co/s/Linux/695889

I don't know a whole lot about hard drives. The interwebs says it's ok but they also are trying to sell me a drive at the same time. My current drive: 6TB WD60EZRX (used mostly for data backups). I've had the drive since ~2015... Drive I'm looking at: 8TB Seagate ST8000NM0045 (I can get them for $70 each (open box)) they are Sata not SAS. Related post: https://poal.co/s/Linux/695889

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Should be fine. Just don't get an A/V drive (meant for DVR use) they are dead nigger slow. Made that mistake once.

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I do having a BD-ROM handy just in case. Never know when you run across a CD DVD or Blueray. That and you might want to rip one but it is doubtful you'll have to ever do that.

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I meant a hard disk that is supposed to go in to a digital video recorder or digital surveillance recorder. Those HDDs are usually slow spinning and have long seek times, optimised for long running low to medium bandwidth sequential data streams.