@datawraith I haven't used disks in anything other than a NAS for 12 years now. Even now I'm replacing ones that fail and rebuildiing the array with a new one, just a couple months ago. Another generation of SSDs and I think I'll be able to finally retire my NAS and move all my storage to SSD, which will be a relief tbh.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Cold storage / archiving backups are both valid use cases for hard drives in my opinion.
It really depends what kind of drivers we are talking about. Consumer grade 2.5” drivers are indeed quite slow and not reliable. But some SAS enterprise grade hard drives from 2014 are still working fine and are actually good enough in terms of speed if you access the data on them via wireless network (cause it’s speed is often a bottleneck, not the speed of the drive).
Overall, it’s storage and it can be used. Just make sure to run something like raidz2 / raid6 to minimise a chance of losing your data. And well, you’d need backups too.
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