[geeks] Disks: recommendations?

[Mike Meredith]

Hi!

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:35:16 -0400 (EDT), Mouse wrote:
> month. The drive pulled every January 1st is kept forever; the rest
> are recycled after a year.  I try to have 13 or so of them in the

For 'stack it on the shelf' for the long term, nothing beats tape.

> I want to move to a "2T" drive for the live backups and something
> bigger, like 3 or 4 disk-manufacturer-shrunken T, for the offsite cold
> backups.  So, my use case is, write for a month, shelve for about a

I've been replacing all the spinning rust in my home desktop
workstation/server with Toshiba 4TB enterprise drives (lsblk gives
"TOSHIBA_MG04ACA4"). Overkill for both our needs, but I've gotten
somewhat wary of cheaper drives - I'm replacing the 2-3TB NAS/consumer
drives in my machine for a reason.

As a bonus, these drives are relatively quiet compared with the Toshiba
10TB enterprise drives in my machine at work which sound like a giant
gargling with marbles.

> So far, I've avoided SSDs.  Spinning rust is good enough that the
> benefits of solid-state do not outweigh the price, especially given
> the wearout behaviour of SSDs.  But if someone really does think SSDs
> are a right answer for my use case, I'd be interested in hearing the
> reasoning behind it.

Except for the possibility that SSDs might suffer 'bit rot' sat idle
over the long term (but at least they won't suffer lubricant
stickiness), I'd say they're an ideal use case. SSDs tend to wear out
due to the amount of writes a 'sector' gets - and backups are not write
intensive.
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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
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