I have quite an extensive collection of media that my server makes available through different means (Jellyfin, NFS, mostly). One of my harddrives has some concerning smart values so I want to replace it. What are good harddrives to buy today? Are there any important tech specs to look out for? In the past I didn’t give this too much attention and it didn’t bite me, yet. But if I’m gonna buy a new drive now, I might as well…

I’m looking for something from 4TB upwards. I think I remember that drives with very high capacity are more likely to fail sooner - is that correct? How about different brands - do any have particularly good or bad reputation?

Thanks for any hints!

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Due to risk of failure or risk of data corruption because the mirror can’t tell which drive is right when there’s a difference?

        • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          The second one.

          Mirroring is good for speed, but a storage mechanism with parity checks will always be more recoverable. And you will have far more storage available.