On 04/20/2016 12:54 PM, Joe Hillenbrand wrote:
As many of you suggested, since I only have 2.8TiB of actual data, It
wouldn't hurt to just buy a 3TB drive for this process. It's better to
just spend the money rather than risk losing my data.
It's not like I won't have a use for it in the future. I even have an
extra slot in my RAID array, so I can just stick it there.
Turns out this problem just needed counseling rather than technical advice. ;)
If you're going to buy one disk just for 2.8 TiB of data and plan to put
it into your RAID array later, get a drive that matches the drives that
are already in your RAID array (4 TB NAS HDD?).
Checking prices on Amazon for my 8 TB desktop HDD and mobile rack as a
backup device suggestion:
- Seagate desktop HDD 8 TB $320
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019OSCLH8
- StarTech mobile rack $65
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000E2Y8P
So, $385+ USD for a 8 TB desktop HDD with mobile rack.
Then I discovered that Seagate makes an "Archive" HDD. This may or may
not be the right drive for your application, depending upon your process
and tools:
- Seagate archive HDD 8 TB $215
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XS423SC
So, $280+ USD for 8 TB archive HDD with mobile rack.
David
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