[ale] Quiet spinning drives?

[DJ-Pfulio]

I think the ssd wear issue has been solved for a few years.  I expect my
SSDs to last longer than all but the best spinning disks - they test
over 10 yrs these days.

Plus, it is $30. What is more important, silence or the amount of
storage to meet the needs?  Below you say 2x8G drives are working.  This
would be over 3x that amount (usable).

WD disks have 1 yr warranties if you are lucky.  Most cheap desktop
drives also have 90 days - 1 yr warranties. To get better disks, you'll
need to spend much more money.  OTOH, this cheap SSD will probably last
longer than you need the machine.

On 02/14/2017 03:39 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> That's an SSD which I don't think is going to apply in this case to a
> single-drive system (OS, data and swap).  The concern in this case is
> the data rewrites (especially swap) that would wear on an SSD.  That's
> why I feel this machine really needs a spinning disk.
> 
> 
> I just recently converted an old laptop to SSD using an mSATA card with
> an mSATA to PCI adapter but that's a laptop that doesn't run
> continuously so I'm not as concerned about SSD wear as I would this server.
> 
> On 2017-02-14 12:07, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> A 32G SSD (m.2 form) is just $30.  These are silent. You could use a USB
>> interface with it if there are internal plugs.
>> or put in an internal m.2 card adapter pretty cheap.
>>
>> 64G version for $5 more:
>> https://www.amazon.com/MyDigitalSSD-Super-Boot-Drive-42mm/dp/B00KBZH78W/
>>
>> On 02/14/2017 01:50 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>> Anyone have a suggestion for a quiet spinning drive?  I've got a few
>>> that need to be replaced but due to a variety of factors an SSD may not
>>> be the best option.  I could potentially be swayed.
>>>
>>> The machine is one of my home servers.  It's always running but the disk
>>> I/O isn't huge.  It's not a fast machine so I don't need an ultra fast
>>> drive.  I'll have to add a SATA PCI card to it to support new drives anyway.
>>>
>>> I was thinking one of the WD Blue 5400 RPM drives as they seem to be
>>> fairly quiet from reviews.  I also considered using a smaller 2.5" drive
>>> instead of the 3.5" drive.
>>>
>>> Capacity doesn't need to be huge, 500GB-1TB is more than sufficient for
>>> this machine (it currently has two 8 GB drives).  It's primary functions
>>> are data collection (writing sensor data to various databases, currenly
>>> using only 1 GB) and log storage from various devices (logs are rotated
>>> so they don't consume large amounts of storage, about 100 MB).
>>> Secondary function is serving that data either via web page or direct
>>> database access.  The web pages use only about 1 GB as well.