Hard drive recommendations

In my opinion, hard drives today are commodities. Brands don’t matter, various marketing gimmicks they introduce to somewhat set themselves apart are from insignificant to meaningless. All that matters is cost per TB, including power consumption over its useful life. That’s it. That’s the only metric.

(This is of course assuming the drive is suitable by all other factors, i.e. not SMR, with ERC adequately configured, etc).

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