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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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SSD Advice (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, I recently bought my first enclosure. I've been looking at SSDs on Amazon but I'm not sure what to go with. Can anyone recommend a good 20TB SSD? I'll be using it for Plex. Are there any good sales at the moment anywhere (I'm in Ireland, not sure where to look!). This is the enclosure I bought:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B071S6ZCMM?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

When I have a chance I'll check to received enclosure to see if its max capacity SSD is 16 or 20TB as it mentions both in the pictures and written description!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I believe you are confusing HDD's (mechanical hard drive) with SSD's (solid state hard drives). As far as I know, there aren't any 20TB SSD's in existence unless it's a rare enterprise model and they would be extremely cost prohibitive (like, 10's of thousands of dollars for that capacity).

Anyways, if you're looking for large capacity drives, you can either buy a Western Digital external and use it's native enclosure or I always recommend https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/hard-drives as a place to shop for high capacity drives at a decent price. Do note, I linked to the HDD page. You can find SSD's at this link for price reference: https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/solid-state-drives

As an additional point of reference, I use the Seagate EXOS X16 and 18's here for my Plex and backup drives. https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/hard-drives?sort=price-ascending&pf_t_brand=brand%3ASeagate&pf_t_brand=brand%3AHGST&pf_t_brand=brand%3AToshiba&pf_t_brand=brand%3AWestern+Digital&pf_t_capacity=capacity%3A18TB&pf_t_capacity=capacity%3A16TB&pf_t_capacity=capacity%3A14TB&pf_t_interface_type=interface%3ASATA