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homes@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Oh, so it was pretty recent? Sorry to hear that buddy.

What kind of drives are you buying? What’s your use case?

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Peter1986C@piefed.europe.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Most folks would buy consumer-grade Seagate drives. I am having a hunch that those would not be remotely comparable to EXOS drives.

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- homes@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Most people would only ever need consumer grade drives. But if you’re running a server and you expected it to last a long time with a high level of reliability, you gotta go with the server grade drives.
  
  The thing I didn’t realize is that EXOS drives are cheaper than other enterprise grade drives. They didn’t used to be. historically, they’ve always been the most expensive.
  
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Milksteaks@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Honestly they were the cheapest for the size at the time i have 6 18tb seagate exos. Bought 4 in 2023 and 2 more a year later. Surprisingly there still the cheapest for the size even though they’ve doubled in price.

Jellyfin server for friends and family mainly. But I’ve been working on getting voice and video matrix server up and running recently because fuck discord. Also have a personal email server on a domain and a password manager

I also host the game of the month servers for the boys. Pal world 7dtd valheim etc. Its nice having the option to self host instead of being reliant on enshittified propriety corporate platforms.

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- homes@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Really surprised that you had one of those drives to fail on you. It’s extremely rare. I’d still stick with them if I were you, even if I had one once.
  
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