I have seven 2.5 hdd holding 8tb of anime. I’m sick of looking for a show and realize I downloaded it 3x Already to 3 drives. So I’m thinking of putting all on 1 big 16tb drive. 16tb Exos x16 for 160$, or ironwolf pro for 200$
Reliability?
I have seven 2.5 hdd holding 8tb of anime. I’m sick of looking for a show and realize I downloaded it 3x Already to 3 drives. So I’m thinking of putting all on 1 big 16tb drive. 16tb Exos x16 for 160$, or ironwolf pro for 200$
Reliability?
I would highly recommend investing in a NAS or even a DAS which has been set up with RAID 5 or similar. You can set this up yourself using something like TrueNAS or UnRaid and an old computer. The advantage of having a RAID setup is if one drive fails you don’t lose everything and you can just replace the dead drive and allow the data to be repopulated.
I’ve been using a Synology 8 bay NAS for almost 10 years and had one drive fail which I replaced without losing any data. That said having a 16TB drive as your primary drive and then having the other drives setup in a RAID configuration as a backup for the other drive is the better option as it will allow for backups should the 16TB crash.