870 QVO Drives

Trig · 16 Oct 2023 at 09:32

Anyone used these as home server storage drives?

One of my spinners has thrown a SMART error this weekend so looking at replacing it with either an IronWolf Pro 4/6tb or, for an 870 QVO 4Tb drive...

The drives don't get a huge amount of use, I have 4 drives in the box at the mo of varying sizes, Windows 11, Stablebit Drivepool/Scanner but they're all going to want to be replaced over the next 18 months and I'm thinking SSD's would give me a slightly quieter box as well as the bump in speed.

Cyber-Mav · 16 Oct 2023 at 09:33

im thinking of using these 870 drives for just write once read many times sort of storage, e.g films etc.

Trig · 16 Oct 2023 at 11:52

Yeah thats pretty much what my box does, runs a couple of VM's but they're on different drives, so thinking of replacing all the spinners with a bunch of QVO drives (4x)..

Jay85 · 16 Oct 2023 at 16:19

I use 2 of these on my home cloud server, 2 x 2TB drives and work wonderfully. Abit more than the average SSD in the same range but i bought them for its reliability.

Bought 1 from the recent rainforest sale and the other from fleabay on offer.

Cyber-Mav · 16 Oct 2023 at 17:33

Waiting for good deal on the 8tb variety

Trig · 16 Oct 2023 at 18:06

There was a deal on the 8tb ones that Club386 picked up on, they were down to like £280 or something like that, by the time I saw it they had gone back up to £315..

I'm away for 10 days this month with work so got a bonus coming in at the end of this month, so might just order 2x 4tb drives for now rather than a single 6tb spinner...

Damned indecisiveness...