Which Hdd for torrenting 24/7
Which Hdd for torrenting 24/7
I plan to use with optiplex 3060 and need drive for long term seed which means continuous read though the read would be only for few kb
Earlier I had seagate external drive shucked but they died after using for 1 year 24*7
I’d think any NAS or Surveillance drive would be fine, but SSDs are the way to go for reads
Get an enterprise class hdd, externals aren’t meant to be ran 24/7. Any brand.
Seeding will wear out any HDD quickly. Use a SSD instead.
Sequential access is where HDDs shine.
Random access is where SSDs shine.
Do would surveliance hdd perform better?
Would be worse.
No those would be worse, they are designed to sequentially write and almost never read.
I used a 4 TB WD Green for 3 years of torrenting and no trouble. Now it's my security camera HDD as well as some other duplicate storage.
I've been using a refurbished enterprise drive from serverpartdeals.com for about a year and it's still going strong. Plus side: cheap. Downside: refurb.
Since it's torrents I assume it's not critical data, so it shouldn't be too big a deal if the drive fails. Buy two and put them in RAID0¹ if it's actually important.
¹ yeah yeah RAID is not a backup service
How storage do you need?
Look for enterprise or NAS grade drives. Really no matter which brand, just look for the best $/TB ratio.
I need to look ₹ / TB
Whatever, just use instead of $ your local currency...