minus-squaredoenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoLast drive I replaced was a consumer desktop drive that had been spinning in my server for 7 or 8 years. Get better drives than that and yeah, they’ll typically last a while. linkfedilink
minus-squaredoenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoYeah, RAID is for uptime, or for speed (RAID0, RAID10), but defo have a backup. Multiple. One of them off-site. linkfedilink
Last drive I replaced was a consumer desktop drive that had been spinning in my server for 7 or 8 years. Get better drives than that and yeah, they’ll typically last a while.