fossilesque@mander.xyz to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoPlease recommend your cheaper, reliable SSDs 2TB+ (4TB ideal)message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down15file-text
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minus-squareLunch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·1 year agoIf there is one thing you shouldn’t cheap out on imo it’s the storage.
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 year agoBroke-ass grad student budgets. Doing my best.
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·1 year 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-squareValmond@lemmy.mindoki.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoThere is probably some iron triangle to be found there; cheap, large capacity ,reliable ; chose two.
minus-squareOverspark@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down5·1 year 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-squareAtariDump@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 year agoSo not fast. Which means the original still holds true.
minus-squareOverspark@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year 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.