[rescue] Baby needs new sh... oh, wait.

[Andy Wallis]

Phil wrote,

> I think it's time for me to migrate my primary ZFS pool onto larger
> disks.  It's almost full (in fact it WAS full and I had to migrate some
> storage off it).  I wish I could spare the dosh to go 100% solid-state
> on it, but I can't.  It looks like the smart price point right now is to
> go from 1TB to 4TB drives.
>
> So.  Does anyone have 4TB drives that they particularly like right now?
>  Particularly dislike?  It goes without saying that Western Digital need
> not apply since practically all WD drives are SMR now.

I recently had to replace my NAS drives, Toshiba 4TB NAS drives, after 5
years, and my HP Microserver N36L after 10 years.

I replaced them with Toshiba 6TB N300
(https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-3-5-Inch-Internal-Drive-HDWQ140XZSTA/dp/B08BV1T759/
) with 128MB /256MB cache.
The 4-6TB is still about the sweet shop for cost without spending a ton of
money on the 8-12TB HDDs, if they are in stock.
The 6TB are $170 while 8TB is $250.
The 4TBs(128 MB cache) are $106

I've been loving the Toshibas since they are pretty solid. I only replaced
them because I started to get more unrecoverable errors or timeouts on my
server. The SATA backplane on the server was failing and it was time to
upgrade to a newer model. I kept the old drives around to see if they
could still be good. I bought new ones anyway just to make sure.

-Andy Wallis