Quiet HDD as backup drive

The rest of the drives have 64mb cache btw

>>58075023
I have a wd red
It's NOT quiet at all, you can hear it if it's doing anything

>>58075096
It's one of the quietest drives available though, how could this be?

Are you sure you don't have the Red "PRO" which is 7200 rpm?

Dont worry about cache if its just for a backup, save your money and get two blue or greens if they are not going to be on 24/7.

Google 3-2-1 backup for more info

>>58075133
No, just checked crystal disk info, it's 5400 RPM

>>58075157
Well shit, I can't find a quieter drive so I have to go with the WD RED.. It should be off most of the time so I guess it's ok

>>58075138
I'd rather go for more quality drives, Blue and Green seem to be for poorfags :)

You only need reds if you have a hardware RAID array controller that requires TLER.

No raid, Linux software raid, ZFS and BTRFS all should work fine with blues

>>58075183
I've tried all of them to be honest except for the new violet ones, the black is of course the loudest but Blues seems to be quietest so far.

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>>58075023
>HDD as a backup
Good idea, just make sure you have anything worth making backups. Rare pepes aren't worth much these days you know.
>quiet
When you don't write/read from your HDD for some time, it shuts itself off: so no sound whatsoever. You can set this even in windows.
>reliable
Buy two HDDs. When one dies, you still have another.

>8TB seems a little too much
It is like saying:
I have too much money.
My girlfriend is too sexy.
I am too much healthy.

There is no such thing like too much space to save rare pepes.
Every time I buy new HDD, I want at least double space. My last crap notebook had 500GB, my PC now has 2x1TB. You know the 4K torrented movies will be BIG.

>go buy blue
You don't need pay more for expensive colors if all you want is to hoard data.

>>58075023
Currently using WD Red. it builds up heat up to 40C but its fine. It' s quiet in my opinion, probably because I had louder ambient noise so I can't audibly hear the hard drive.

>>58075467
>go buy blue
>You don't need pay more for expensive colors if all you want is to hoard data.

I was choosing between WD Red and WD Blue. I tend to pick WD Red because of Unload/load cycles and MTBF of 1,000,000 hours. Hope its worth it. My experience >>58076860

>>58075023
You do not want these in a non raid/nas environment, error correction is disabled on red drives.