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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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Get a 1TB SSD and run your main OS off that. I would get TWO 6 or 8TB internal mechanical drives and then another external drive. 12TB at the smallest. Set up all your shit to download to the mechanical drive, store data files, etc. Run Windoze and Office from the SSD.

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This is what I usually do. 1SSD for the base OS. 1 2tb SSD for "fast local" storage. Then 1-3 large spinning disks for local slow but deep storage. Though, I do have a home storage server as well so I only currently have 1 spinning disk for my desktop and the OS of choice is Linux with a dual boot to Windows for games that don't work well with proton/wine.

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My setup is like this:

  • 500gb nvme for OS (ubuntu server)

  • 1tb sata ssd for jellyfin tanscodes and docker mounts.

  • 4tb internal hdd for Nextcloud storage and Photoprism (pictures)

  • 6tb internal hdd for backups of the above drives

  • 8tb internal hdd for movies and music storage

  • 6tb external hdd (the one that died) as a secondary backup drive that I leave disconnected unless I am backing up the backup drive. And there is also some other data that i keep stored on there from my other PCs (this is the data I'm hoping I can still recover).

  • 8tb external hdd for backing up my movies and music.

Probably not the most optimal setup, but I've been doing it this way for years. Old habits...