Which 12tb drive for media storage?

[madoka]

I am looking at getting the largest single drive possible for my iTunes media. I'm currently maxed out on a 10tb, and I see that WD and Seagate make 12tb drives. Which would be better for my purpose?

When will the 14tb drives become commercially available?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Closest I've heard for 14tb availability consumer drives is this summer.

You could be a good candidate for a Xi freenas setup, as opposed to a single disk

 

[rchunter]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Toshiba-En...600180&hash=item441c454516:g:R3UAAOSw6gRa2skh

 

[ch33zw1z]

Not a bad price for an Enterprise 14 tb

 

[ImpulsE69]

These kind of drives are meant to be redundant. If you aren't concerned about losing the songs, then whatever, but I agree with the above posters. Get yourself a small NAS with smaller cheaper disks at this point. It will cost you a touch more than a single of these drives, but you won't lose everything at the drop of a hat either.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hey OP, just wanted to swing by and say thanks for considering Seagate, regardless of which route you decide is the best fit for your needs in the end.

For a single 12TB drive, our offering in that space would be the 12TB BarraCuda Pro. Here's the spec sheet just to make sure you've got it handy.

 

[madoka]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Toshiba-En...600180&hash=item441c454516:g:R3UAAOSw6gRa2skh

How reliable is that Toshiba enterprise drive? Is it more/less than consumer drives?

 

[rchunter]

It should be more reliable but I would still have some kind of backup. Have your data on multiple drives just in case.

 

[aigomorla]

10TB is a aweful lot of FLAC files.

Is there a reason why you want it on a single disk?
i would not trust 10TB+ of anything on a single disk unless it was R1'd

 

[madoka]

I ended up buying the the 14tb drive rchunter recommended. Fast or regular format?

Is there a reason why you want it on a single disk?

I'm not technically sophisticated. I don't know how to combine two smaller drives into one. I tried using external servers to hold my ever increasing iTunes library, but didn't like it. It would take some time to mount, sometimes wouldn't mount, and I had to keep it on all the time when I use it only about once a month.

Putting it on one giant HD seemed to be the easiest solution. I'm not as concerned about backups, because I bought everything from iTunes and can redownload what I need.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Most NAS drives or boxes are easy to use for your purposes. Up to you though. Personally I'd have gone with a NAS drive with some type of RAID setup that offers protection against data loss (Raid 5 or 1+0). The built in software interface allows easy adjustment of these settings on many of them.

 

[Charlie22911]

I ended up buying the the 14tb drive rchunter recommended. Fast or regular format?



I'm not technically sophisticated. I don't know how to combine two smaller drives into one. I tried using external servers to hold my ever increasing iTunes library, but didn't like it. It would take some time to mount, sometimes wouldn't mount, and I had to keep it on all the time when I use it only about once a month.

Putting it on one giant HD seemed to be the easiest solution. I'm not as concerned about backups, because I bought everything from iTunes and can redownload what I need.

Many consumer NAS boxen are very easy to use. I started my NAS journey with a Drobo 5N before eventually moving to unRAID and using the Drobo as a backup target (5x 8TB). The drobo is essentially plug and play with very little technical knowhow required. I've had it going on 6 years now and it has been perfectly reliable.

As for formatting your drive, since you dont have any sort of redundancy I'd do a few full formats just to make sure your drive isn't at the start of the failure bathtub curve.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

As for formatting your drive, since you dont have any sort of redundancy I'd do a few full formats just to make sure your drive isn't at the start of the failure bathtub curve.

Full format + full drive write + data write and compare. This will take a fair amount of time, all while stressing the drive. If it survives, it should be fairly reliable.

Its not a matter of if a drive fails, but when.