Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12
On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, jeremy ardley wrote:
> On 24/4/25 13:03, Gareth Evans wrote:
> > I would prefer to buy one off the shelf than build my own, but that's an
> > option too.
> You can go to Dell but when you look into the actual specs you end up paying a
> lot more to get something that fits your need.
I bought a second hand Dell T5820 which did the job for me.
> Then get one or more Western Digital Red hard drives (accept no substitutes) .
> These can provide your NAS storage for many years without replacement
I thought that RAID meant "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks" but I guess
that under pressure from manufacturers Inexpensive became Independent. If you
run a RAID you accept that replacements will happen, so I don´t see the
advantage of buying expensive (I know, I should say Independent) disks for a
personal system. A cheapo Seagate in one of my RAID 1's now has well over 90000
hours. Only the WDs have failed.
Roger
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