Re: Cheap spinning rust was: to lvm or not lvm
Steve Litt via Ale <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:27:19 -0500 William Bagwell via Ale <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, January 01, 2026 07:43:51 PM Steve Litt via Ale wrote: > > Let's say someday you wanted A LOT of disk space. You could buy a > > 7200 RPM 12TB spinning rust, > > Meant to post this a week ago, Amazon only but other sites like this > probably exist. > https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&capacity=11-12&disk_types=external_hdd,external_hdd25,internal_hdd,internal_hdd25,internal_sshd,internal_sas > > And 12TB starts out a bit cheaper per TB than the 2TB I ended up > with. Not to bash or defend Seagate but recently had a 15 year old > 1TB Seagate fail. (Backed up) Think Constellation is a higher grade > than Barracuda? New 'old stock' so research part numbers which I > failed to do. My opinion: Friends don't let friends buy Seagate. My personal Seagate experience tells me that to have your Seagate last 15 years is a super fortunate outlier. Actually, it's unusually fortunate for *any* disk, but *especially* Seagate. I've had pretty good luck with Western Digital. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2023 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list [email protected] https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo