[Leica] Hard drive advice?

[Don Dory]

That was a helpful link.  It appears that somewhere around 36 months HDD
failure rates start going up.  That appears to be a budget problem in terms
of planned replacement schedule.  Currently it appears that both 12 and
14tb drives are reliable in the timeframe mentioned for failure rates.

Drobo does have a calculator for what mix of drive sizes provides what
storage space is available so I was aware that adding one large drive
doesn't add storage space especially if using the dual drive failure
feature.  Understood and will buy based on size/price reliability scale.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 7:33 PM RicCarter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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.
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> > Don
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> >
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