datahoarder@lemmy.mlbyThe0utc4st@sh.itjust.works
9 months

Budget friendly 4tb nvme for a canadian cheapass trying to make own cloud with a geekworm pi nas?

lemmy.ml

Okay, so now that my little experiment with a bunch of scam nvme drive from amazon is done and over with and I got my money back from amazon. Where do I look for some cheap and semi decent 4tb nvmes? Adata used to by my goto budget flash memory, never had any problems with any of their drives. But they’re not so inexpensive anymore… Team group seems like they have good prices but how reliable are they?

Is prime day or boxing day even a good time to buy drives?

Is there any 4tb nvme under $300(CAD) even worth looking at?

Again, I’m just farting around and experimenting but any suggestion will be greatly appreciated and win you imaginary internet points from a stranger sitting on a porcelain thrown as he writes this.

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    • solrize@lemmy.ml
      9 months

      Don’t data hoard with SSD’s, especially low budget ones. Big box of HDD’s as either RAID or some kind of object store with erasure codes is where it is at.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
        9 months

        SSD’s are fine for backups. Unless you do a massive amount of writes, which would be weird for backups, they are very power efficient.

      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        21 days

        When you make a RAID array, do you just get a bunch of HDDs and put them in an array case? Like, do you configure the array or do packages already have software for it? I’m working on a self hosting project now, but need to figure out storage and prefer just buying my own drives and using open source for the array management if possible.

        • solrize@lemmy.ml
          20 days

          Linux has software raid built in. You use mdadm to configure the array. It’s a bit confusing but not a big deal. You might want to ask for help when you get to that point. Alternatively if you want hardware raid, you buy a raid controller and plug the drives into it. IDK about really attempting either of these with a raspberry pi instead of an x86 box. I’d use a box.

      • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
        9 months

        You can get 4TB of high quality HDD for $100 and with your budget you can get that and 2 backup drives

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
          9 months

          I buy 14TB enterprise helium-filled HDDs off serverpartdeals for like $140 a pop. 4TB for $100 is a bad deal