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for a homelab: new seagate ("consumer grade") barracuda 8tb hdds. half the $ per gig of 4tb ironwolfs. if you're zfs pooling with redundancy, half your disks can fail over the NAS lifetime and you'll still come out ahead. (note: I've never had a barracuda fail in over 10 years.)
2026-02-25 14:32:54
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mrwalterh :
Looks for referbished HGST drives on eBay. I picked up 8TB drives for $70 each
2026-03-27 16:46:54
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earlylifecrisis :
how did you connect your drives to your mini pc? i was planning to build mine but I'm concerned that i will get transfer speed redundancy when i use USB
2026-02-27 05:48:54
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Diboesty :
i have een running a few of these drives (also 4tb) on a synology and is used for plex. they have been on 24/7 for over 5 years now and not a single errond. get these!
2026-02-24 00:54:13
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The Laser Ace :
How the read and write speed to that over usb? Notice any issues versus direct to the motherboard?
2026-02-26 23:49:30
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J@y :
Ok, like seriously I have been asking myself this question. If I have a Mac mini and some hdds, what do I need that would make the Mac mini "talk" to the hdds seeing that the latter uses sata? Is there a multi-sata to thunderbolt connector?
2026-04-16 21:07:46
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David 57 :
what r u using to power the hdds. what is used to send the connection on boot
2026-03-12 19:51:09
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Danika :
how do you have enough power for 3,5 hhds?
2026-02-27 10:55:04
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Arnav :
That’s why I went all SAS drives. Picked up 8x8tb sas drives for 400 bucks with clean SMART
2026-02-27 01:12:03
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sebastiangleal :
What software are you running on the nas
2026-02-24 06:20:34
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Goofie3 😃 👤 :
What is the brand and type of the rack? That looks very nice
2026-02-24 13:11:21
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Jorge :
How are you wanting to set up your storage? Do you plan on using raid or zfs? You can also just have a bunch of of drives, but you do risk data loss. Ironwolf pros are really good. I have a couple and I’ve had no issues.
2026-02-24 20:14:07
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ho appena preso questo per cominciare il mio homelab. i5 7gen, 16 gb ram ddr4, 512gb ssd
2026-03-18 07:26:57
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Steave :
Buy at least 2 to start so they can be mirrored.
2026-03-16 05:34:24
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BigIbz :
unfortunately new and cheap drives will be tough to find. id recommend going refurbished or used which still may not be "cheap" enough
2026-02-24 00:05:45
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Len :
what PC do you have??
2026-03-14 15:30:03
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SATHYA :
mine 😂
2026-02-24 14:41:02
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Keemo Soby :
looking slick dude.
2026-02-24 02:52:36
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I would recommend the 14-22tb n300 Toshiba drives as they are expensive they are only 100-150more than 8tb wd or ironwolfs
2026-04-09 21:13:57
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adobe_exe :
I use one of those in my Plex server (no redundancy) and it's worked perfectly for over 5 years! I can recommend them
2026-02-24 21:50:14
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Steave :
What server rack/case is this?
2026-03-16 05:34:56
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Insane Alternate Timeline :
I started with regular consumer drives but as I replace them I am going with Ironwolf. Good luck finding them and at a reasonable price though. NAS and NVR (Now advertised as AI) drives are going to datacenter contracts.
2026-02-26 13:15:55
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tramnb_1101 :
😳😳😳
2026-03-04 03:28:30
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Sausage Meows :
I've just used 4x5900rpm 4tb ironwolf in a NAS this past weekend. Had two sat on the shelf for years that I paid £115 for, saw the Western Digital statement and grabbed another two new for £135 average on eBay. I had the moment of "do I need to store video media on here" and decided I don't and these are fine. I think right now you have to be realistic about your near term use for ram and storage. Don't buy for what you might do in 3 years. I know the likely hood of me moving to serving video rather than streaming is very small and if I decide that I'll sort it then. In the past I'd have got 22tb drives and never used it. Replace often and be able to accommodate failures, not dreams of data hoarding.
2026-02-24 11:14:35
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T Murph :
What is the lowest model you can use for nas? The i3? Was looking at them on eBay for nas and piehole.
2026-02-24 01:33:39
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