Seagate Skyhawk 3.5" 3TB SATA Internal Hard Drive HDD 256MB ST3000VX009 $79 + Delivery @ PC BYTE

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Pyangmao on 20/05/2021 - 12:09 pcbyte.com.au (497 clicks)
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Great price, down from $135 to $79, $10 extra for the delivery .

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  amisty79 on 20/05/2021 - 12:16

  NAS worthy?

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    MasterScythe on 20/05/2021 - 12:22

    +12

    So long as you use a checksum file system such as ZFS, ReFS, BTRFS or AFS, yes.

    The reason surveillance drives are different is because their firmware abandons on-drive error checking much quicker (if it even tries).

    Because a single corrupted bit, or even 10, would mean a hiccup in your video feed; perhaps a block, or an audio pop, but still a working recording.

    If it were a normal drive, it could get 'busy' trying to repair a write error, and 'miss' new data being effectively live-streamed in.

    So for normal desktop use, this is terrifying, but if the data is checksummed, then there's no harm or risk anymore.

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      realaaa on 20/05/2021 - 12:25

      +3

      thanks for that! good summary

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      Hellcrusher3304 on 20/05/2021 - 14:11

      Does this apply to all surveillence drives, e.g. WD Purple?

      Meaning if using it for Desktop drive, the NTFS format won't be safe?

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        MasterScythe on 20/05/2021 - 14:44

        +2

        Yes it does.

        As yangmao said, there's meant to be a fallback protocol for day-to-day use, but there have been instances in data recovery centers where they've found it not to trigger.

        So; the answer is that it SHOULD be fine, but dont guarantee it.

        Ntfs is so old now, only Windows uses it anymore, and really only for a boot drive.

        My windows drives otherwise are BTRFS and ReFS.

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      yangmao on 20/05/2021 - 14:15

      +1

      In general, on-drive error checking is functional unless the HDD is working under surveillance mode with "ata streaming" protocol, so no issue for using it as a day to day desktop HDD.

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    realaaa on 20/05/2021 - 12:24

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    good price but nope looks like not a good option for regular NAS use

    https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/gchp9g/seagate…

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      yeanah on 20/05/2021 - 12:28

      But then there's… https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/guh2xm/can_you…

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      MasterScythe on 20/05/2021 - 12:32

      "Regular NAS" come in so many flavours, you really just need to check what type of file system it uses.

      Qnap's odd version of mdadm? Probably not.

      (Newer) Synology's implementation of btrfs? Probably fine.

      Also, many people call a home-server doing only file serving a 'nas' also.