Hey gais, pretty much the title. So far I was buying HDDs every few years always having a backup, had some drives fail tho. Today I was visiting a local data centre and they are using these cool but expensive high TBW enterprise TLC SSDs, (Samsung, Micron, Kioxia).
I know shiz about data preservation, if I buy one of those, do you think they are going to last longer without failing? If I lets say give them a power up once a while?
But it’s probably still way cheaper to just swap bad sector HDDs.
Instead of high quality expensive drives, consider more of the medium quality drives with more copies. And HDDs are much cheaper than SSDs at high capacities.
Those data centers need drives that are accessed 24/7 by many users simultaneously. They have perfect operating conditions such as temperature, don’t care as much about noise, etc. That’s not your case.
Consumers need consumer NAS drives, not enterprise drives.