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What's the difference between a $50 HDD and a $200 HDD? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Beginner question: Searching for my first dedicated server setup, and I have no idea what to look for in a hard drive. I see a huge difference between drives of the same capacity, so what makes the difference? I am looking to eventually have a media server that can run "-arr" programs, Jellyfin, Immich, sync music, books, etc.

What are the factors I should be paying attention to other than capacity? Is it a lot of branding and smoke and mirrors, or will I see a significant change in performance/reliability with different drives?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

$150.

(Also usually speed and/or capacity along with higher quality components)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

150$, sorry

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Some hard drives are built for 24/7 operation. They have higher MTBF ratings and longer guarantees.

Hard drives are very different. Many of them waste energy, lie in the SMART log or just are weird (spin up and down, lose speed, get incredibly hot etc.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Rpm is a thing to look at. A 7,200 drive is faster than a 4,200, but slower than a 10,000.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

jots down notes

Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, numbers....in.....ascending.....order.

Got it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

10,000 and 15,000 rpm drives were made obsolete by SSDs and were discontinued several years ago. They are slower than many modern 7,200 rpm drives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

As someone that works at a storage devices company - we do still manufacture 10K HDDs. They are faster than the 7200s of the same spec, by nature. All 2.5” drives for enterprise systems. And will actually continue selling them until ~2030. That said, they’re all but obsolete at this point, and aren’t really being developed on any more.