Disk Drive TB/$

Craige_Hales · Aug 18, 2022 10:14 AM

Time to upgrade the 8TB drive on a video server. One of the choices sticks out.

Scanning the TB/Dollar column also locates the outlier. Scanning the TB/Dollar column also locates the outlier.

This is an old model USB desktop drive that I'm not recommending one way or the other; my existing drive is the 8TB model and I like it because it spins down when not in use. I don't like it because it takes 15 seconds to spin back up.

jthi · ‎08-18-2022

I was building desktop PC in 2011 (I think) when the floods hit Thailand? and affected HDD supply and the prices did increase quite heavily. I needed large HDD to save my files and tried to stay on the budget. Luckily I did notice that the prices of USB hard-drives didn't increase in all shops so I did buy one of those, removed the casing and got myself HDD.

At some point I started noticing some small hiccups from time to time... it was caused by the spin-down (and especially spinning up) after drive was not being used. This caused some issues when gaming and so on, so I wrote python script which did write some small file to the drive from time to time to avoid the spin down. Worked great back then!