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  • Lunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    252·
    1 year ago

    If there is one thing you shouldn’t cheap out on imo it’s the storage.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        1 year ago

        Then just get a pair of hard drives and put them in RAID 1. I use a NAS with a single hand-me-down 5600 RPM HDD and the bandwidth is absolutely fine.

      • Scholars_Mate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago
        • SLC -> Single-Level Cell, i.e. 1 bit per cell
        • MLC -> Multi-Level Cell, i.e. 2 bits per cell
        • TLC -> Triple-Level Cell, i.e. 3 bits per cell
        • QLC -> Quad-Level Cell, i.e. 4 bits per cell

        The more bits per cell you store, the more dense and therefore cheaper your flash chips can be for a give capacity. The downside is that it is slower and less reliable since you have to be able to write and read exponentially more voltage states per cell, e.g. 2 states for SLC, 4 states for MLC, 8 states for TLC, etc.

  • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    WD Green /shrug

    I’ve been using all Red Pros since I first built my nas, but it started with a couple of green 2TB that where in there for like 7 years before being replaced (didn’t die yet)

    • ReducedArc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same, we’re ones of dozens I’m sure but I’ve been running a mix of WD greens and Seagate barracudas in a hardware RAID5 array for over a decade. Only had 2 drive failures over the entire time with no data loss. But yeah… would advise against that if possible

  • ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Transcend ssd220s (4tb SATA) can be found for really nice prices.
    Even had a thread about this one on Lemmy cuz I wasn’t sure how good it is (it’s great).

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Been using Sabrent Rocket SSDs for awhile. Been reliable and fast. They aren’t the cheapest SSDs, but they perform well and don’t break the bank.

  • asbestos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Your local network is probably 1Gbit or 2.5Gbits so you’ll be good with SATA as an aux drive, say a Samsung 870 QVO. I’d recommend running a smaller NMVe as your main one.