Question WD Blue 8TB - first impressions

[igor_kavinski]

Pretty much silent, even when copying over 1100 files at an average rate of 110.9 MB/s. Completed 78GB transfer from SSD in about 12 minutes. File sizes ranged from 16 MB to 20+ GB. I did feel intermittent vibrations a few times.

 

[bigboxes]

I've currently got a 3700X system with ECC memory, but B550 systems don't officially support ECC. However, I've done a lot of checking to make sure it's active and functional. My previous box was a Xeon x3470 with 24GB of ECC DDR3. Just upgraded my storage recently from 12TB to 18TB drives because I was on my last terabyte of free space, and WD had a nice price ($300) on 18TB Red Pros recently.

So, how many of those 18TB drives do you have in that box?

 

[bigboxes]

You are lucky than most to have critical stuff at that quite manageable capacity.

Yeah, I've got 2.5TB of mp3's alone. I remember when I had a 250GB WD drive go tits up with video files that were not backed up. Last time that happened. I do wish I had a set of off-site copies.

 

[Golgatha]

So, how many of those 18TB drives do you have in that box?

Zero.

Those are matched external drives that I rotate in for offsite, monthly backups. I put the 12TB drives, which were my old externals, in the box. So really I upgraded from 6TB drives to 12TB for internals and those 18TB drives are my new externals. There's also a 10TB drive in the box as well for game install backups for 4 computers. There are 70TB worth of drives total dedicated to having 4 copies of my data. I use Free File Sync to mirror what's on the 12TB drives and there are 2 copies of my data on the external 18TB drives. I like having an extra copy of all the game install backups on the externals, which is why I size them larger.

From time to time I mirror the 12TB mirror and 10TB game backups to my main gaming rig, which has a 16TB drive in it, because why not go overkill on backups right? I suppose that backup is for uptime in case the server fries or something.