Good price for daily storage like TV shows or movies, I plan to buy one for my Jellyfin
Features:
- Reliable everyday computing
- Western Digital quality and reliability
- Free Acronis True Image WD Edition cloning software
- Capacities up to 12TB
CamelCamelCamel.
Why though? Do you stop and start your JF server as needed?
Who does that?
edit1: Just realised JF has an autostart flag that can trigger on client login, nice
Edit2: don't people just leave their servers on?
My media server is always on.
I would, but it's using old reclaimed non nas hdd waiting for a decent deal to replace, so I don't feel comfortable leaving the disks spinning all the time, so I turn it off unless I want to use it
Down the track I'll put 3 decent nas drives in for some redundancy and rethink it
@Talonparty: Your drives will likely last longer if you just leave them on 24/7 - it's the temperature cycling and spin-up that often kills them. It might be counterintuitive, but turning them off and on regularly is actually worse for drive life…
@Nom: That is incorrect, if you leave a drive spinning idle for 12+ hours straight accumulates needless bearing wear and wastes electricity. So you are killing your drive faster. However, if you access the drive multiple times throughout the day. Frequent power cycling (turning it on and off every hour) causes thermal expansion stress and accelerates drive failure
if you leave a drive spinning idle for 12+ hours straight accumulates needless bearing wear
Modern hard drives use fluid bearings. These don't "wear" by any measurable amount.
It's MANY years since they've used contact bearings.
@Nom: These are 1 and 2 tb drives that have migrated through systems since they were new (1 tb capacity) and before SSDs. I am surprised they have been going so long some of them have uptimes of several years. One of them has been throwing smart errors for years. It's a shame as I never really got into making my own NAS until relatively recently and when I wanted to expand the prices blew up. It was just a way to repurpose an old machine and some scattered unused drives, so I figured better to just cycle it on when I want to download shows and watch stuff and cycle it off — nobody else is using it at the moment so no big need to keep it on forever
at the moment i'm probably only turning it on once per week as I am playing some games instead of watching media so mine is a special case i guess
@linkavich14: Agree 100%, there is little need to leave a NAS drive running 24/7 when its being used 1-2 hours a day.
I turn mine on just for the evenings
The prices are outrageous for a 12TB WD Purple Pro that I am waiting to pull the trigger on.
Has Amazon US improved on how they pack HDDs?
They probably shove it in a massive box with a few pieces of that brown paper stuff in there and the hard disk will be bouncing around all the way to Australia. If you're lucky the hard disk comes in a smaller box with the foam inserts to protect it but it'll also be shoved in a big box and will also be bouncing its way over to Australia.
I bought a WD Red Pro 14Tb 2 months ago and it came in it's original packaging (a sealed properly fitting heavy cardboard box), and then inside an Amazon box with bubble wrap - which I thought was pretty good.
That drive cost me $506, so this 12Tb Blue (smaller drive, two levels down from Red Pro) seems a bit pricey to me.
Yes, take a red pro over this any day. This drive would be fine for most use cases but not great at same cost as a red pro 14.
what a bargain! :)
game over man, game over.
is it cheaper to just pay pikpak and stream it ?
torbox & stremio
This is dire
I know. I just had a drive die this week too. It was a Seagate 2 years old though so i didn't expext much of it.
Damn. Sorry for your loss. I loathe the day that happens to me.
I got my last 20tb one for $677 waiting for another big dip to stock up on some more larger ones, just worth having a cold spare atm :'(
My wallet is going to cry when my x3 10TB drives that I bought 5 years ago eventually die all within the span of a few months…
Ahw mate, I bought a few 16Tb last year and I thought there's little point getting more since OBVIOUSLY it would be cheaper in the future.
You thought wrong
Perfect timing! Just had a 12TB die in my NAS and was lamenting having to get something even more expensive than the already inflated prices.
My tired eyes thought you were buying one for your Jellyfish
SO HARD TO KNOW
running out of room on my HTPC, but do I wait or pull the trigger.. no clue if prices will drop anytime soon or still take 2 years…
Hdd DOA. It arrived in the Amazon cardboard bag. Anyone share same experience ?
Should be fine for jellyfin. Still cannot believe the prices on hdds. Wouldn't put in a heavy usage Nas. Or put crucial backup on it.