@fossilesque@mander.xyz to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agoPlease recommend your cheaper, reliable SSDs 2TB+ (4TB ideal)message-square49fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down15file-text
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minus-squareLunchlinkfedilinkEnglish36•10 months agoIf there is one thing you shouldn’t cheap out on imo it’s the storage.
minus-square@fossilesque@mander.xyzOPlinkfedilinkEnglish25•10 months agoBroke-ass grad student budgets. Doing my best.
minus-square@rtxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•10 months agoThen just get a pair of hard drives and put them in RAID 1. I use a NAS with a single hand-me-down 5600 RPM HDD and the bandwidth is absolutely fine.
minus-square@Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comlinkfedilinkEnglish14•10 months agoThere is probably some iron triangle to be found there; cheap, large capacity ,reliable ; chose two.
minus-square@Overspark@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish5•10 months agoYou can have all three of those, but you won’t get great performance. The Samsung QVO SATA drives are a great example. I wouldn’t use those for an OS drive but they’re fantastic for NAS or media use.
minus-square@AtariDump@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish22•10 months agoSo not fast. Which means the original still holds true.
minus-square@Overspark@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish5•10 months agoOh I agree with your post, but I was responding to Valmond who used different criteria.
If there is one thing you shouldn’t cheap out on imo it’s the storage.
Broke-ass grad student budgets. Doing my best.
Then just get a pair of hard drives and put them in RAID 1. I use a NAS with a single hand-me-down 5600 RPM HDD and the bandwidth is absolutely fine.
There is probably some iron triangle to be found there; cheap, large capacity ,reliable ; chose two.
You can have all three of those, but you won’t get great performance. The Samsung QVO SATA drives are a great example. I wouldn’t use those for an OS drive but they’re fantastic for NAS or media use.
So not fast. Which means the original still holds true.
Oh I agree with your post, but I was responding to Valmond who used different criteria.