WD Reds for constant writes?

jrwagh333

jrwagh333

jrwagh333

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Looking for a drive that will constantly be written to. Just a few MBs every ten minutes. Will reds be the best? Will be 24hour operation.

I only need 1TB
 
Armageus said:
Not if the data is important - purples are CCTV drives.

Ideally you would get WD gold - which are enterprise rated drives
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Is the data important though?? Gold's are overkill if the data is not important. I still stand by the purple for the requirements stated.
 
I'm presuming it's sequential data, then if so then purple.

Golds (now renamed ultrastars) are more suited to random IO such as database operations with high queue requests, dam good drives however I use gold's on my software dev workstation, In the history of HDD's WD Golds are probably the best sata HDD's drives ever made.

For best reliability all HDD's should have some gentle cooling (air) passing over them.
 
It will be for a Bitcoin Lightning node. This will be writing around 5MB of data to the drive every 10 minutes, 24/7.

If data is lost, so is funds.
 
Then disk type is not that important and you should first think about redundancy.

And with writes that low, absolutely any drive will do, inlcuding SSDs with their notorious write issue.
 
Why all sort of different rated drivers, why is there not a drive that is simply, reliable and good performance?
 
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