What do you suggest to store Launchbox in external hd?

[xevious1974]

Dear @skizzosjt

thank you again for your reply.

The spinning time seems to be an interesting value to follow.

I'll try to understand better it and how to keep monitored.

Smart says that it is all ok...

I'll buy a new HD if this is not working well, it keeps my base LB install with roms. It is a new HD, it has only 1 year... sigh

Thank you again for your precious tips and advices!

😊

[xevious1974]

Dear @skizzosjt

one last thing

I am intertested buying a new HD, it is quite useless at this speed (maybe later I'll request an RMA or support to WD).

I have already an WD DC HC550

https://www.bpm-power.com/it/online/componenti-pc/hard-disk-interni/3-5-18tb-western-b1693264

I have seen also a Seagate Sata Exos (ST18000NM000J)

https://www.bpm-power.com/it/online/componenti-pc/hard-disk-interni/3-5-18tb-seagate-b1705797

What do you think about this drives? I use for Launchbox, so the main app, platform and roms.

Thank you again!

[skizzosjt]

On 11/3/2022 at 12:00 PM, xevious1974 said:

Dear @skizzosjt

one last thing

I am intertested buying a new HD, it is quite useless at this speed (maybe later I'll request an RMA or support to WD).

I have already an WD DC HC550

https://www.bpm-power.com/it/online/componenti-pc/hard-disk-interni/3-5-18tb-western-b1693264

I have seen also a Seagate Sata Exos (ST18000NM000J)

https://www.bpm-power.com/it/online/componenti-pc/hard-disk-interni/3-5-18tb-seagate-b1705797

What do you think about this drives? I use for Launchbox, so the main app, platform and roms.

Thank you again!

hey xevious, either will get the job done so you cannot go wrong really. In a nut shell, if you need all that capacity then the Exos drive will fit that job nicely. If you can get by with a smaller capacity disk, then check out either Seagate Firecuda series or WD Black series which a marketed more for the use case you have here. You would notice fastest performance with Firecuda because it's a HDD/SSD hybrid disk but I suspect WD Black disk would offer basically no worth while difference to the Exos disk. Quick googling makes me think they do not make Firecuda and Black series at such capacities though. So if you need a disk at 18TB capacity, you may very well be stuck getting a disk from one of their series that is designed/marketed for Enterprise/datacenter/NAS type of applications rather than the typical media consumer at home. 

[xevious1974]

10 minutes ago, skizzosjt said:

hey xevious, either will get the job done so you cannot go wrong really. In a nut shell, if you need all that capacity then the Exos drive will fit that job nicely. If you can get by with a smaller capacity disk, then check out either Seagate Firecuda series or WD Black series which a marketed more for the use case you have here. You would notice fastest performance with Firecuda because it's a HDD/SSD hybrid disk but I suspect WD Black disk would offer basically no worth while difference to the Exos disk. Quick googling makes me think they do not make Firecuda and Black series at such capacities though. So if you need a disk at 18TB capacity, you may very well be stuck getting a disk from one of their series that is designed/marketed for Enterprise/datacenter/NAS type of applications rather than the typical media consumer at home. 

Thank you again, @skizzosjt

I'll think a little about it then. Maybe I can wait for black friday to see some discounts. I'll return my old 14tb when I'll have copied all my data.

I have copied 50gb in more than 1 hour... Something is not working, it is for sure now.

 

Thank you again!