Harddrive thread.

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>>58239761
I'm living on the edge using a Seagate 8TB Archive drive.

I would like to get 4TB, what do you guys recommend?

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I hope you can die in peace now

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>>58239761
SSDx2 -> RAID 0 SSDs
DATA/BACKUP -> USB Drive plugged into my server

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hello

>>58239833
I'm using HGST NAS

Looking to get a mid-range 2TB. There are too many conflicting opinions out there and I can't decide
Can some one help or direct me to a trustworthy review site?

>>58239858
I only want it to store my JAVS and TV Shows though so performance/speed is not really a primary thing I just want space to store stuff I rarely use.

>>58239864
/g/ is a trustworthy review site

>>58239864
>>58239833
WD Blue or Seagate Barracuda. Pick the brand that you prefer, they're pretty much identical in every way.

>b-b-but muh durability
It literally does not matter. Standard desktop storage use will not stress the drives much at all. All drives will eventually fail, as long as you have backups it'll just be a minor inconvinience. Don't pay extra for meme server drives unless you stress the drives hard or downtime costs money for you.

>>58239782
Aren't those shingled?

>>58239922
>as long as you have backups it'll just be a minor inconvinience

but don't people buy those kind of drives to store their backup on them?

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I have 3 cases worth of 2 - 4TB disks, ask me anything.

>>58239974
Do you mind shipping me 4x4TB drives?

>>58239974
How do you access them?

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>>58239761
memed on

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>people on /g/ use windows 10

jesus christ how horrifying

>>58239999
8 are in a RAID, some get swapped through a USB SATA dock for backup as a virtual tape library, the rest are unused right now. some day when i have more money ill get around to buying some 4U super micro chassis with SAS expanders and bring them online.

>>58239990
yes i would mind, go get a job in a data center and then you can pull disks out of servers and start your own collection

>>58239922
Not him but I'm looking for a 4tb

Are the WD reds any better in terms of life than the blues?

>>58239922
>>b-b-but muh durability
It actually does, enterprise class disks have a order of magnitude better non-recoverable read error rates. go read a data sheet sometime you tard.

>>58240054
I have no CP to hide, so... :^)

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I need to rob some unused HDDs from work, there's a few 1TB WD Blue's I've got my eye on.

how can you possibly fill more than 1tb

>>58240394
private trackers

>>58240116
You're going to risk getting fired and arrested for theft for a few $40 USD HDDs?

>>58240057
I'm actually a sysadmin and I'm harvesting every drive I can get.

>>58240471
worst case, they make up good magnets on the fridge.

>>58239922
Durability does matter, I don't want to have to buy a new HDD every few years and what am I meant to back up onto if standard HDDs "all eventually fail"?

Are 3TB Toshiba HDDs decent? They currently have the best $/GB next to Seagate and I have heard enough horror stories about Seagate to stay clear.

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>>58239761

How the fuck is this a thing? You're just chatting shit about your hard drives? Jesus christ.

>>58240998
whats the big deal

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>>58239761

>>58240998
Body allowed.jpg

>>58241043
Just a bit autistic

>>58241112
Welcome to /g/.

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I have 2 other 128gb flash drives. I ought to buy another HDD for more steam game storage. Z is almost entirely games.

>>58241121
You're the most autistic person in the thread, judging by your drive names

>>58241436
I'm just a weeb, not autistic.

>>58241457
Both.

>>58241457
you care about shakugan no shana, your argument is invalid

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>>58241417
>Z is almost entirely games.
step up your game

>inb4 some autist claims its a shoop because of the size on disk
Its on a Server 2016 SMB share which has dedup enabled, and windows can't properly calculate the actual file size because of it; size on disk is just the size of files which havent been processed by dedup

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This is my list of drives and such currently attached to this computer

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>People on /g/ actually use Winblows 10
Shame
Shame
Shame

>>58239826
>>58239837
how the fuck do you even read this shit

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>>58242675
looks like he used the -h flag which makes it human readable. Might have been smart to add -x tmpfs too

>>58239826
>>58239837
What command is this? fdisk -l? mount? lsblk?

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>order hard drive
>hard drive comes busted
>dad returns it
>decides not to buy another

and thats why I'm stuck with 118 gb of SSD which is really a 100 after all the reserved space for the system

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SSD fag here, sorry.

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Eh...

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>>58242897
see >>58242696

>>58243011
>3 GiG o' RAM
lol poorfag

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Planning on getting a 500gb samsung evo 850 to replace it. Windows really doesn't run well on a HDD.

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H-hello

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>>58239761

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Modest but gets the job done. Oh and System Volume Information takes up around 150gb of the W:/ drive. I'm lazy.

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>>58243367 here
>>58242900
128GB (119GiB) is good enough for most people's needs.
In my case after removing one VM hdd file, all music and gaymes there is entire 100GiB of free space left.

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evo 850 512gb partitioned, and hgst 2tb

>>58240598
Have 2 HDDs with a copy of the same shit.
One dyes immediately buy a new one and copy.

Never use RAID its cancer.
Unless you want to use RAID 0 its only a faster JBOD.

How does this sound as an idea?
I have three 1TB hard disks to store 2TB of data.
Half on the first, half on the second, and the third is what I'd call a "parity drive" that allows errors to be corrected, or if a drive fails for all the data to be recovered.
Here's how it works:
For every nth bit on disks A and B, the nth bit on C will be the modulus of the difference of A and B, allowing full data recovery. For example, if the two bits on A and B read 00 or 11, then C has 0; 01 or 10 records 1. So long as two disks are functional full data recovery is possible.

Does this sound like a good idea for archiving data? Is this something that is already done?

>>58243876
why partition?

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>2017-a bit
>multiple logical disks

>>58243370
>System Volume Information takes up around 150gb of the W:/ drive

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>>58244160
Yes, this is called RAID 5. Calculate two independent pairities and you can withstand two drive failures, this is RAID 6.

mdadm on Linux can do this, as can ZFS. Btrfs can but you shouldn't use it because it's still buggy.

>>58244160
Stupid.
Will suffer RAID failure.
If one bit gets demagnetized the whole RAID shit fails with no possibility of coming back.

RAID and other technologies can deal with full HDD/SSD failure where one drive reports its dead.
If the data becomes inconsistent its fucked and knows not what to do.

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>>58239761
I have 2 x 8TB HDDs where they are mirrors of one another.

So effectively I have 8TB.

I have no idea how to show it do to my set up, I can take a photo of the HDDs however it sounds pointless.

>>58244449
>I have no idea how to show it do to my set up
don't tell me you fell for the hardware RAID meme

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the rest of the terabyte is the linux partition

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>>58244349
>what is scrubbing?

>>58240998
Even on 4chan, normies come bullying us, leave us alone.

What's a good cheap SSD?

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>>58239761

>>58244612
850 evo

>>58244724
How can those drives all be equally full? really weird

>>58244745
That's the same NAS.

>>58244472
No its unplugged from the computer.
Both HDDs are plugged in only at the same time when they are mirrored.

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r8 pls

>>58244786
27.1/10

Can you ever have too much storage or will you just fill whatever you have with increasingly high quality media files?

>>58243307
how do you possibly have a several PB archive drive

>>58244786
>10.17

drakestanza.jpg

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>>58240394
>how can you possibly fill more than 1tb
Oh let me sing you the song of my people
Be me.
Have a constant backup of internet servers that interest me with web bots and shit.

people who know this constantly say
>You are paranoid anon
>You are sick anon
>Stop hording LOL
Me pokerface.jpg

Then all of a sudden their fav YT channel gets purged or some autist realizes how autistic the stuff was he posted and deletes it. Also DMCA and greed based purges.
These morons have no access to this material and cry.

I deliciously sip their tears and show off my material, I'm not going to give it to them
>I'm paranoid
>I'm a hoarder
>I need help
>your tears of unfathomable sadness are delicious
This is all I tell these fucks.

The pure joy of this is unimaginable. Trust me its like a drug to see these fucks in this situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48H34ukFe8g

>>58240394
Installing all the games you own on steam.

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>not getting all the benefits of Linux in windows...

>>58240559

this is what I do with all of my old drives

>>58245580
cygwin's fork() considered harmful and slow
wsl considered correct native solution for now

>>58244967
Thousands of 2tb drives
In the process of building a San that will make that look like a fucking joke.

>>58245010
are you me from the future

teach me your doings

>>58240950
What OS is this?

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Don't really differentiate my hard drives, but I got Q recently so I could move off all of the pictures i had in my dl folder in E.

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12TB file server and a 500gb web server

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>2009 WD black finally starts making clicking sounds this year
got all the shit i care off of it and now i dont care if it fails
she served me well boys

i think im gonna get a 250gig 850 EVO to replace it since im only using about 100gigs for steam games

are the WD SSD's any good? or are the samsung SSD's still the GOAT?

>>58245653
>using a botnet inside a botnet

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>>58245690
Yes.
I'm you, from the future.
I'm you only stronger.

>>58243307
What program are you using to hotkey things in the explorer?

>>58245909
The alt key.

When I alt +print screen in Windows 10

>>58245690
>teach me your doings
What do you want to learn?

>>58242564

>People actually fall for the Linux meme

Oh god

>>58242939

Why do you need 5 bluray drives? Are you some industrial scale BD Remux dumper?

>>58245653
>harmful
by whom?
>slow
works fine for me

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>>58246012
>Still on windows
This is sad.

>>58244786

Pure jealousy.

>>58240394

How can you use any less than 10?

Let me guess, you stream "HD" media, right? Those crystal clear 6mbps Netflix "1080p" "HD" streams.

>>58246102
>6 millibits
Yeah really going to take your opinion seriously.

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>>58239761
its a bit claustrophobic

>>58245010

> most people don't know the joys of having 7TB of redundant storage in a NAS warming their basement

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512GB 950 Pro M2 SSD for OS / Software
2TB HDD for legally acquired media

>>58246126
why so many small drives?
upgrade and combine that shit onto one drive

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WD 1TB SMART C5 Current sector pending count goes to 1. Try everything to get the sector reallocated but nothing works. Funnily enough I know the file that gives the crc error as it was a torrent. What do?
Should I just leave the file intact and continue using the drive or do I chuck the whole thing for a single unallocated sector. Is there a way to force windows to not use the sector. CHKDSK it ain't doing shit as usual. Help me kind fellow anons.

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>>58239761

>>58246413
lol at the happy drive and sad drive dichotomy

when a hard drive finally bites the dust what do you do with it? chuck it in the garbage?

>>58246464
put it in a drawer with the other fallen

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>>58239761
keep it simple

>>58245991
how to archive sites properly
>inb2 lrn4wget

I'm afraid they'll take away the internet, or heavily censor it

>>58246262
cant afford nothing new atm , but is there any difference or any benefits for using one big drive instead of 3 smaller ?

>>58246464
Write dead on them and stick them somewhere.

I made one into a disk sander but it sucks ass.

What bracket do you recommend for an SSD?

>>58239999
checkd

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I use an SSD on my computer though. I only have hard drives in my PS2 and home server.

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You get a DVD-writer too

Does anyone use an SSD of 1TB capacity or higher?

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Two 250GB SSDs and two 1TB HDDs. Don't really need more than that.

>>58246464
I destroy the shit out em and then give the remains to an electronics recycler.

>>58248366
I am, been using a 1TB Samsung 850 EVO for 17 months. Got it for roughly £210 during the Amazon Prime Day sale in 2015.

>>58246464
take it apart and salvage the magnets from them

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and 4tb of network storage

>>58246464
make a clock, check youtube for that

>>58239761
This is basically my setup, except Linux instead of Windows.

>>58246369
Chuck the whole thing because there's going to be more of those sectors pretty soon and you'll lose more files.

>>58246102
I agree, any less than 10Mbps and it's trash.

>>58245010
how fucking autistic can one person be?

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>Nearly every poster has far more than 20% free space
Unless you're intentionally short stroking, you're wasting space senpai.

>>58240425
I live by the sword.

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>>58242564
3 ssds in raid 0 on the machine.

Network drives are usb drives attached to my server/nas/plex/torrenting/htpc located under my tv. 1tb drive (torrents) is used for active torrents, media is used for backups and tv/movies (torrent files are copied to this drive by sickrage/couchpotato. They are not seeded), games is used for game-install files that I want to keep (some GOG installers from GGN and the likes. Some are still active, some are not).

Will remove nas from the box eventually and get a nas so that I can expand storage space beyond USB drives.

>>58240998
>chatting shit

pommie wanker detected

>>58251933
can you post the loli please?

>>58245700
Windows 10

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>>58251945

>>58251993
thanks anon

>>58252011
your welcome

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Dozo.

Cheap huge SSDs fucking when?

My 2 month old seagate external drive just died taking all the photos just before they get moved. Fuck seagate.

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i have no idea why i am replying to this, i think its boredom mostly.

>>58253119
>Not backing all of your photos up to Google Photos.

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>>58253119
Was it a 3TB Seagate drive?

>>58253159
Fuck off
>>58253168
No, not that meme drive. A small one, only 1TB portable drive.

>>58253189
Seriously what the fuck is it with Seagate, I thought it was limited to only the shit from the factories that got flooded or whatever.

>>58244191
I have 2 on 1 disk because photoshop 7 does not support partitions greater than 1tb.

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>>58246369
Personally I buy a new HDD(yours is starting to show funny behaviors) since this one starts acting up. I have a mirror so I can use the mirror + new HDD from now on.

Also my HDDs are encrypted so I can simply sell the drive after purging (not deleting, purging) its contents and installing linux over it.

Then I sell the defective HDD for some money, maybe a idiot buys it and it will fail after a year for him.
Or use it for a scratch disk for some projects and media so its not a problem when it dies.

Also to all
>I have nothing to hide so why encrypt LOL
People
I hope to god your HDD is filled only with pirated games and movies and light illegal stuff.
If the buyer tries to recover the data you can be fucked.
I think I'm safe with my encrypted from start -> purge -> instal linux ->delete linux
Strategy. What do you think anons?

>>58253201
Meanwhile, the only drives I've ever had fail on me are WD drives one external(1TB) and one internal(4TB). I still got two Seagate externals, one 6 years old still alive and kicking.

>>58253936
I think the older ones are pretty reliable, i have one 320GB barracuda hard drive from 2010 and still going strong with only one reallocated sector that appears two years ago. Now i only use it for experimenting with linux distros though.

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>>58246540
>how to archive sites properly
For YT channels I recommend youtube-dl simply have a script for the channels that interest you.
For example lets say you https://www.youtube.com/user/MemoryHoleTube so you write
youtube-dl -cit https://www.youtube.com/user/MemoryHoleTube
In the appropriate folder where you download the whole channel with new videos and the like.

For website its tricky wget is iffy for me and I personally use HTTrack however get ready for not having the ability to download mega websites.

HTTrack is best for old web style websites where 1 website = 1 channel of one dude not some uber aggregator of channels.

I also use a specific program for getting boorus (if you are interested in this), trust me you are torturing yourself if you browse the images with the web interface.

The latest wank fest was when berings channel got emptied he was fun however he fucken used copyrighted music in his videos him getting cleaned was inevitable.
All the fag boys where pissing and shiting themselves while I was laughing my ass off with my archive.

Also with regards to all auto downloaders remember to experiment and in the beginning test test test.
If the process is taking to long stop it and see what is going on, look at the output, see if you are not downloading the internet or some shit.
Write down the exact parameters you used to get for the program and use this setting after you brake it in.
Also if the program is extra autistic, remember to write what does not work or results in bloated shit.

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Enjoy.

C is an SSD.
E is two physical SSDs combined as one logical drive. No striping, it just spans both drives.

>>58253201
There is a joke that they are named sea fate, generally Seagate is cheap and suffers a little on the reliability front.

Personally I use Seagate and have 2 drives in a mirror I figure its better this way then having 2 WD. I prefer having a mirror to one HDD that is told to be reliable.

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Not bad at all
1st is the ssd for OS
2nd is the general storage
3rd is for games

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>>58239761
40k style

>>58244583
>implying 4chan isn't a normie site now

>>58254531
cyka blyat

>>58252018
what about anon's welcome?

>>58254832
hilarious and original

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Only really limited by my backup at the moment. Considered a NAS for a little while, though now I'm not sure.

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not too shabby or not interesting

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I have an empty M2 slot. Thinking of buying another Crucial 525GB when this one is filled.

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I need a bigger NAS.

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's okay. I dread the day when one drive of the NAS dies as the controller can't into hotplugging and I need to power that shit off. Or expansion for that matter.

>>58257398
>hiding the local IP address
top kek

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>>58257481
192.168.0.6

>>58245662
How would one possiblely have space for that, and what if one drive goes down? Surely it's some flavour of raid to prevent that?

>>58251253
>>58253904
Yes I am going to chuck it after all. I am the type of hoarder that even if it does not develop any more issues I would not feel safe for the data stored on it. I am more worried about data corruption than loosing data as I do backup everything at least twice. There is nothing worse than backing up corrupted data.

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>>58239761

Im about to get a new 2Tb HDD as a main drive, retire my scavenged samsung and seagate barracuda, both 320 gb and keep just a 500gb wd drive for backup important stuff, I need something cheap so wd or toshiba?

>>58259139
Toshiba are generally cheaper. If you are in Yurop you can get an even cheaper Intenso. They are a Germany company that sells Toshiba hdds under their Intenso brand but you get a Toshiba drive on the box indistinguishable from a Toshiba drive. In fact if you have to rma I believe you do it directly with Toshiba.