Now? This is technology from before 2010. If anything they'll be cutting more corners than the usual just to shave a few cents on a niche technology, like they're doing with the optical media.
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It's fine. It was even better when it was 149.40 but got increased after it was posted on various sites.
There is only Synology and DIY.
Ideally don't take a Sandisk, but really anything else.
Nobody knows absolutely for sure, but if your drive has TRIM (I think most/all WD SMRs and probably a number of Seagates by now too) it should be enough to blkdiscard everything (it's an instant operation, can be done specifically or it's done sometimes by various tools when formatting, removing partitions, etc.).
2TB drives probably shouldn't be bought anymore with SSDs solidly into double digits and dipping lower and lower.
rm -rf everything . That will take care of everything for you, won't need to watch or organize yourself anything. And it's free.
I've read that there is 1 (or 2) parity drives, but does this mean that these drives always spin up with everything you do? Wouldn't that shorten its lifespan significantly compared to a SHR configuration?
SHR is mdadm RAID. It means:
- you can lose more data than the drives you've lost
- you MUST to spin up ALL drives for mostly everything
- you need all the disks as well in some kind of service recovery situation (like for example you still have all the disks fine but your box died, you need all 8 or whatever number of disks to be connected to do anything, can't just take one disk and use the data from there)
If you WANT to spin all drives all the time with unraid of course you CAN do that, but otherwise you CAN spin up only the one from where you read (or the one you write to + the parity). That is of course an advantage, you can do as you wish.
What isn't shown in the chart is the price for larger drives. We've had prices in the thousands (discussing dollars), then in the hundreds, then the HUGE difference was made from the crisis started at the end of 2011, when we started with 2TBs going towards 25/TB (ok, usually 30+ but in any case way under 100 for a 2TB drive). The prices went up and then barely recovered. Not only the maximum capacity didn't increase too fast but also the price per TB didn't decrease much. We aren't nitpicking here that it's between 25/TB and 15/TB or 35 and 12.5, we're talking orders of magnitude like it was the case for these intervals before. There isn't anything worth mentioning into double digits anymore (spinning drives under $100). And it isn't that there wasn't inflation in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, this thing with nearly zero inflation was just some part of 2010s.
There are people even now (well, as of yesterday) in this sub that would recommend 4TB spinning drives for 135 Euros. That is when you can have SSDs at around 150 with the right sale (a little under even if accept Samsung's QLC, which is fine).
There's no more unlimited. Jottacloud openly throttle you (probably you could do 10-20TBs eventually given enough time, but not considerably more) and I think OpenDrive finds reasons to kick you out around 10TBs?
rclone of course.
Use rclone, with a cheap VPS if you need. If it isn't rclone supported it's a good sign you shouldn't be touching that service, even if you don't know what rclone is and you didn't ever want to use it.