I thought I read somewhere that larger drives had a higher chance of failure. Quick look around and that seems to be untrue relative to newer drives.
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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I mean, cool and all, but call me when sata or m2 ssds are 10TB for $250, then we'll talk.
Not sure whether we'll arrive there the tech is definitely entering the taper-out phase of the sigmoid. Capacity might very well still become cheaper, also 3x cheaper, but don't, in any way, expect them to simultaneously keep up with write performance that ship has long since sailed. The more bits they're trying to squeeze into a single cell the slower it's going to get and the price per cell isn't going to change much, any more, as silicon has hit a price wall, it's been a while since the newest, smallest node was also the cheapest.
OTOH how often do you write a terabyte in one go at full tilt.
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How can someone without programming skills make a cloud server at home for cheap?
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(Like connected to WiFi and that’s it)
Not programming skills, but sysadmin skills.
Buy a used server on EBay (companies often sell their old servers for cheap when they upgrade). Buy a bunch of HDDs. Install Linux and set up the HDDs in a ZFS pool.
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Debian, virtualmin, podman with cockpit, install these on any cheap used pc you find, after initial setup all other is gui managed
Raspberry Pi or an old office PC are the usual methods. It's not so much programming as Linux sysadmin skills.
Beyond that, you might consider OwnCloud for an app-like experience, or just Samba if all you want is local network files.
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The two models, [...] each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk
Huh? The hell is this supposed to mean? Are they talking about the internal platters?
More than likely
How many platters?!
30 to 32 platters. You can write a file on the edge and watch it as it speeds back to the future!
These things are unreliable, I had 3 seagate HDDs in a row fail on me. Never had an issue with SSDs and never looked back.
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