Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
by flyinghamster on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:52PM
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I built up a homebrew NAS with three of those Supermicro drive bays, and, other than the need to remove/replace screws (and not lose them for empty bays), I've really liked them.
However, I can't for the life of me find out whether or not those bays will work with 6 Gb/s SATA. I've been considering putting my Ryzen 7 board into the NAS case to consolidate two systems into one, but I'm not going to go to that effort if I have to get new hotswap bays.
Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
by nathanlv on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:43PM
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Yes. I used to see equipment -- hard drives, video cards, motherboards -- burn out at least once a year, and then I installed a power conditioner on my hardware. That was 4 years ago. Last year, for the first time in 17 years, I upgraded my motherboard by choice rather than replacing it after a failure.
In the past I've used a lot of those Supermicro 5x3" drive carriers and they have really good airflow. This was for storage in servers I built for home use. I wrote up something in 2008 about one I built here: www.tummy.com/articles/ultimatestorage2008/
Faster spinning disks generate more heat and vibrations than slower spinning ones. 15K drives are notorious for needing good environmentals.
My current storage needs are pretty limited, which probably would make SSD attractive. Or we are getting there at least. My storage server right now has 6TB used, and around 1TB of that is backups. If I could get by with 4x 2TB SSDs, I might consider it, just for longevity sake. I'm using ZFS BTW.