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Google Drive appears to have lost some of it's users files by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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Amazing website. I'm unable to load the last 10 messages. It says it loads them sucessfully but it does nothing.

Best Way to Rip Rare DVDs? by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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please uninstall handbrake and forget it exists

Check out my first time hoarder beginning by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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I just hope you can find these toshibas at a reasonable price lol. Looks good.

Is this Seagate Exos genuine? by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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but I was wondering if it's genuine

Nothing extraordinary, looks genuine. These white ones are OEM drives.

Also, I read on the web that is more noisy that the average hard drive, so I was expecting to hear a noisy motor, but actually the motor itself is very quiet, I think quieter than the other drives I own, but the drive it's very noisy when it read or write data (it looks like there is a hamster wheel inside). Is it normal?

Motors are mostly silent, yes. It is normal.

Also, not on this unit, but on the other one that I'm testing right now, I noticed a small dent on the enclosure.

If the dent was caused by pressure that's fine. If the dent was caused by an impact it's not fine.

as far it works properly I should be fine?

if you crack your head but then you work properly, it's fine-ish, I guess?

Is it worth it to buy NAS specific HDDs vs Normal ones? by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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"NAS" in the name doesn't matter. If it's CMR and specced for 24/7 work it's fine.

Where to source good reliable Hard Drives? by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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I can find same HD in amazon for less and those in amazon still expensive.

you sure?

Where to source good reliable Hard Drives? by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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https://www.westerndigital.com/

question about the HGST Ultrastar He10 by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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Enclosure issue, potentially with encryption involved. Can't say more without knowing details.

Caching directory structure and metadata. by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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If you determined that whatever caching the OS does is insufficient then you can try ZFS with a special vdev for metadata (though beware, it's not cache).

Fikwot SSDs on Amazon? by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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Any SSD that's not on this list https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/ is an automatic NOPE from me.

Need guidance, storage purchase imminent, limited budget. Recert / Refurb Drives by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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Note that any sane RAID software will limit the size used on each drive to the size of the smallest drive in the array.

Storage on a home server by Sopel97 in c/[email protected]

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As mentioned the 4TB Barracuda is an SMR drive. These are pretty useless for RAID as their write speeds are abysmal. In case a resilver is needed it'd take like 10 times longer than with CMR drives, completely defeating the point of RAID. See https://www.servethehome.com/wd-red-smr-vs-cmr-tested-avoid-red-smr/

At least ZFS allows increasing the size of the drives within a mirror pool. Not sure about other RAID setups but it's a pretty easy feature to support so I would expect virtually everything to have it.