Hello ! I have a custom build NAS currently using 4x6TB hard drives in RAID10. I am looking for a capacity upgrade. My main focus are low power consumption and low noise (the NAS is in my living room / home office).

I can’t seem to find any 5400RPM HDD over 8TB in capacity anywhere. Is there any model with 10, 12 or more TB in existence ? If not, what could be the reasons ?

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    It’s a niche of the hard drive market. It persists in “surveillance” HDDs but that’s because they’re optimized for endurance, and low noise is just a side effect.

    Not too many people are putting a NAS in their living room.

    • Synapse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      Thanks, I will look for surveillance types of disks.

      Living room is my only option.

      • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        Don’t do it, is my suggestion. Surveillance disks are optimized for continuous writing performance and not read performance. They mght be SMR version also which can play havoc in a NAS with lots of writes, as it can’t just rewrite one portion without relaying out the shingled overlayed tracks adjacent.