Not sure how it takes before I have this 7th drive nearing full and needing a 8th for 72TB usable and just hope it happens after HDD prices come back down to reality since these babies aren't cheap!
#Best plex media server hdd pro#
Now here we are in October and I am waiting for the estimated 12 hour disk clear to finish on the 7th 12TB Ironwolf Pro giving me a total usable space of 60TB. In June I was ordering a 6th 12TB Ironwolf Pro and couldn't believe I was getting such a high usage % (trying to keep under 80% on all data disks) of the original HDDs so quickly. It started with 5x12TB Ironwolf Pros (2 parity, 3 data) and never thought I could realistically fill that despite ambitions of grandeur to build most immense 4K library assembled anywhere. In April the 14TB drive was getting full and when they released the 11th gen Intel CPUs I pulled trigger and built my first UNRAID.
#Best plex media server hdd tv#
Unfortunately, the 16TB WDC WUH721816ALE6L0 is only available in Europe.So what started my Plex adventures out using an 8TB external HDD that I had plugged into my first Shield TV Pro which I figured I would never be able to fill up which slowly became a 10TB external HDD and then a 14TB external HDD. If you need a larger drive, the 08TB Toshiba MG16ACA16TE is available for a discounted price of just $350 from Tiger Direct. You can order the Seagate ST6000DX000 6TB for $235 from Newegg. We generally suggest using dedicated NAS drives for Plex servers, but if the Seagate ST6000DX000 works well in Backblaze's data centers, it should work just as well with your Plex setup. Now, I should note that the 6000TB Seagate ST000DX6 is technically a "desktop" hard drive. That's still significant, because Seagate makes millions of these drives every year.)
(Yes, we're talking about a change of less than 1%. It is now much more reliable with an AFR of only 0,11%. In previous years, Backblaze found this drive to have an AFR of 0,96%. Seagate's ST6000DX000 drive fits the latter scenario. These changes can make a drive crappier, as we saw with the WD Blue SN550 last year, but they can also increase a drive's quality and reliability. This makes the 6000TB Seagate ST000DX6 the best hard drive for your Plex server, despite its relatively low storage capacity.īut how does the Seagate compare to tests from previous years? Here's the thing manufacturers often make small changes to their hard drives. Notably, the Seagate drive has an average age of 80,4 months, while the WDC and Toshiba models last an average of 5,06 and 3,57 months. The three most reliable hard drives in 2021, according to Backblaze data, are the 6TB Seagate ST6000DX000 (AFR 0,11%), the 16TB WDC WUH721816ALE6L0 (AFR 0,14%) and the 16TB Toshiba MG08ACA16TE (AFR 0,91%). Ideally, customers building a Plex server (or any other server, for that matter) should use drives with a long lifespan. We're also interested in the lifespan or "average age" of each drive, for obvious reasons. Installing the 200+ drives on January 000 would be impossible.) (Backblaze collects this information from its data center, which means the company uses these drives for real server work. This statistic shows the failure rate of each drive throughout 2021 while accounting for the Backblaze environment, where drives come into test all along the year. The AFR or “annualized default rate” is what interests us the most. You can see the drive models Backblaze has tested in the table below. Also, large capacity hard drives (759TB and above) seem to be more reliable (but not necessarily more durable) than lower capacity models.
The company found some interesting results: while many hard drives are "reliable", only three drives have the ultra-low failure rate that Plex customers want. Throughout 2021, Backblaze monitored 202 hard drives and recorded their failure rates. Fortunately, a new report from Backblaze reveals which popular hard drives perform best in a real-world test environment its cloud data center. Replacing a failed drive takes time and money, especially if you don't have redundancies in place. Very few hard drives are designed to handle the continuous use, heat, and vibration of a Plex server.
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