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2019-03-02 03:11 70007621 Anonymous (31jRy3nYBdL.jpg 500x500 10kB)
I'm considering these three external 8 TB hard drives and need help deciding which one to get. My purpose for using them is to store an insanely large rom/iso collection. Once all the data is loaded on to the drives the drives will be seldomly accessed, and when they are accessed it will just be to pull a single file off of the drive. So I don't necessarily need a super fast drive, since once its filled I'll never need to make a large transfer with it again, and I can fill it while I'm working so the long transfers will be done when I'm not home anyway. Here is what I'm looking at: >https://www.seagate.com/files/www- content/datasheets/pdfs/desktop-dri ve-3-5-DS1986-1-1804US-en_US.pdf >https://www.seagate.com/www-conten t/datasheets/pdfs/bup-dt-hub-amerDS 1894-1-1605-AMER-en_US.pdf >https://www.seagate.com/files/www- content/datasheets/pdfs/desktop-dri ve-3-5-DS1986-2-1807US-en_US.pdf >https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D5V2Z XD/ref=psdc_595048_t1_B004HFJZ6E All four are 8 TB externals. Which will be the best for my purpose? (filling the drive to capacity a single time and then occasional single file pulls). One that doesn't require a power adapter would be preferable, I couldn't figure out of any of them do not require one or not.

4 min later 70007652 Anonymous
>>70007621 Never Seagate. The WD MyBooks that BestBuy has an exclusive on are good. I've heard most have WDRed server drives in them.

5 min later 70007656 Anonymous
Don't get the backup hub unless it's a lot cheaper. While SMR won't be an issue in your use case, there's not reason to get a drive with SMR unless you have to.

7 min later 70007676 Anonymous
>>70007621 Just buy bare disks (e.g. wd reds) and mount em in an external swappable drive thingy. Cheaper, more flexible/extensible, saves plenty of space, since not every fucking disk needs its own case and controller and shit.

9 min later 70007696 Anonymous
God tier solution would be to get WD MyBooks, shuck them and throw them into a NAS using raid 1, raid 10 or some meme BTRFS/XFS filesystem. But I recommend the MyBooks anyway, because most of them contain WD Red HDD's, which are the noblemans HDD. Plenty of shit HDD's out there, well worth paying an extra 5$ for reds

20 min later 70007830 Anonymous
>>70007676 >Cheaper externals are cheaper than internals in current year

22 min later 70007845 Anonymous
>>70007676 >Cheaper actually there are some external drives that just have a wd red inside and are cheaper than the bare thing.

26 min later 70007899 Anonymous
>>70007830 >>70007845 bare wd reds are going to be cheaper than fucking mybook(s).

27 min later 70007910 Anonymous
>>70007899 no they arent you mongoloid... externals are cheaper but don't come with 5yr warranties like internals

28 min later 70007917 Anonymous
Guys nothing you suggested are cheaper than anything I linked in the OP for dollar/TB. Please refer to what I posted in the OP and answer the questions I asked if possible.

30 min later 70007939 Anonymous
>>70007899 No they're fucking not. google what "shucking" is.

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