hey friends. im shopping for computer parts for the first time ever - just internal hard drives, but it's still something i don't know a whole bunch about
i'm looking for two internal SSDs, one (but not both) of which NVMe
is there anything i should keep in mind while shopping? any common hard drive pitfalls to be wary of? tips for not buying the wrong thing or screwing up the installation?
after a bit of research i figured i should clarify what im looking for
the non-nvme ssd is for a network file server, so i care about big storage, frequent reads, infrequent writes. not so much about ultra speed
it turns out storage devices are a land of endless compromises and tradeoffs in a way that interacts poorly with my desire to get the best possible value for my money whenever i have to spend over a hundred dollars on something
maybe a smaller SSD for booting and a bunch of big HDDs i can RAID together (RAID 10 perhaps?) would be the best fit for this project. hrm
im gonna do this - small SSD to boot off of and large HDDs for the actual file storage
now then. does anyone have advice about shopping for HDDs
@typhlosion seagate's barracuda compute line is pretty much unbeatable in terms of storage per money, and they're pretty reliable in our experience
they're SMR drives, which means slow writes, but for a NAS that doesn't really matter
-F
