We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
New/refurbished Hitachi/hgst 4tb ultrastar. Reliable, reasonably fast, cheap. I have one myself and i love it
What i'm planning to do tho is to buy 8 cheap used 1tb hdds (25eur each) and have them in a raid5 array. If one fails just pop in a new one thanks to redundancy
These are what I buy. They are white label drives so they are cheap but very reliable. https://www.amazon.com/7200RPM-Enterprise-Server-Desktop-Warranty/dp/B016YZDBZK
Reminder black friday is in a few weeks
The cheapest CMR drive for me is the WD RED Plus 8TB on Amazon for 209€. I'm from Italy, so this is on Amazon.it.
Does anyone have good eBay sellers to recommend for refurbished drives?
how much capacity do you actually need? I'd rather my ebook collection was on 3 different 1TB drives than one 4TB drive.
Don't forget to budget for backup
Seagate Exos E 8TB is currently at about 150€ on mindfactory. But it’s quiet loud. For some people this is a problem.