[Leica] Hard drive advice?

[RicCarter]

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2021/

I’m using mostly Toshibas and HGST (although they are now WD)

Drobo brags that mixing sizes and brands is fine

you do sacrafice some space if your largest drive does not have a matching size pair
eg is all your drives are 6 and one 8, you don’t get the textra 2 from the 8 until you replace one of the 6 with something larger

ric



> On Oct 13, 2021, at 5:52 PM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> For the computer literati on the list.  I suffered a hard drive failure on
> my 5 slot Drobo.  Not a problem and have swapped in a replacement drive.  I
> did change settings to two drive failure mode with a corresponding decrease
> in capacity.
> 
> My question is what are the better 3.5 inch large capacity drives?  I am
> currently using 6tb red wolf drives and am contemplating going to 14tb
> drives if they have similar reliability probabilities.
> 
> Advice and suggestions happily received.
> -- 
> Don
> don.dory at gmail.com
> 
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