I plan to use with optiplex 3060 and need drive for long term seed which means continuous read though the read would be only for few kb

Earlier I had seagate external drive shucked but they died after using for 1 year 24*7

  • snatch1e@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Look for enterprise or NAS grade drives. Really no matter which brand, just look for the best $/TB ratio.

  • TexMexBazooka@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d think any NAS or Surveillance drive would be fine, but SSDs are the way to go for reads

  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I used a 4 TB WD Green for 3 years of torrenting and no trouble. Now it’s my security camera HDD as well as some other duplicate storage.

    I’ve been using a refurbished enterprise drive from serverpartdeals.com for about a year and it’s still going strong. Plus side: cheap. Downside: refurb.

    Since it’s torrents I assume it’s not critical data, so it shouldn’t be too big a deal if the drive fails. Buy two and put them in RAID0¹ if it’s actually important.

    ¹ yeah yeah RAID is not a backup service

  • WikiBox@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Seeding will wear out any HDD quickly. Use a SSD instead.

    Sequential access is where HDDs shine.

    Random access is where SSDs shine.