I want to start data hoarding ebooks and other educational media, this drive will live off the grid most of the time as my area gets a lot of storms and I’ve lost a previous setup to a surge (surge protectors did not help). The drive will not see much reading, mainly writing so I was thinking maybe a surveillance drive might be best. I’m looking at around ~2tb of calculated storage I’ll be needing so maybe a 4tb or 8tb (if possible with my budget) might be better in order to have some more space for future data needs. What are my best options below 150 euro?

  • kryspin2k2@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    New/refurbished Hitachi/hgst 4tb ultrastar. Reliable, reasonably fast, cheap. I have one myself and i love it

    What i’m planning to do tho is to buy 8 cheap used 1tb hdds (25eur each) and have them in a raid5 array. If one fails just pop in a new one thanks to redundancy

  • DAndreyD@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The cheapest CMR drive for me is the WD RED Plus 8TB on Amazon for 209€. I’m from Italy, so this is on Amazon.it.

    Does anyone have good eBay sellers to recommend for refurbished drives?

  • TaserBalls@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    how much capacity do you actually need? I’d rather my ebook collection was on 3 different 1TB drives than one 4TB drive.

    Don’t forget to budget for backup

  • Queasy_Question2610@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Seagate Exos E 8TB is currently at about 150€ on mindfactory. But it’s quiet loud. For some people this is a problem.