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Which 12tb drive for media storage?

madoka

madoka

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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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
It should be more reliable but I would still have some kind of backup. Have your data on multiple drives just in case.
 
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
 
I ended up buying the the 14tb drive rchunter recommended. Fast or regular format?

aigomorla said:
Is there a reason why you want it on a single disk?
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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.
 
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.
 
madoka said:
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.
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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.
 
Charlie22911 said:
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.
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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.
 
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