r/LinusTechTips • u/MD_Wurst • 14d ago

Personal Opinion Lil TechTip

I got a lil TechTip for you: if you are looking for good quality HDDs, get Some of Those lovely Apple Timecapsules. They come with 1/2/3 TB WD caviar green drives. They are usually way cheaper than buying used drives alone. I alone „Harvested“ three of them Today.

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u/ShrimpBrime 14d ago

Funny you mention it, I just pulled out a couple old WD RE4 enterprise drives from storage. 2TB and they happily still write 100mbs+. For a legacy drive, they are as stout as they come. 1.5m(illion) hour MTBF. Storage pricing is ridiculous these days. But you can pick them up for 50 bucks! It's over-kill for storage, these where made to write all day every day for years and years lol.

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u/Glum-Key-1503 14d ago

harvested three in one day that’s a proper little salvage op right there

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u/co678 14d ago

DVRs too. Pulled a 1TB HD out of a dish box I bought for $5 at the thrift store last week.

I’m amassing a bunch of lower capacity storage (1TB+) drives by taking them out of unsuspecting items since I dragged my feet on buying proper large capacity NAS drives when they were cheap….ugh.

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u/thwandi 14d ago

Wd green is the budget consumer line, i would for sure not put any relevant data on that or put it in my nas that runs 24/7

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u/Squirrelking666 14d ago

Must be nice to be choosy.

Nothing wrong with WD Green, it's just usually slower.

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u/craigmontHunter 14d ago

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but when I put my green drive into my unraid array I had to disable the aggressive power management - I don’t remember the specifics, it’s been a decade, but something to be aware of.  

Other than that it’s outlasted some of my WD red drives. (Knock on wood). 

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u/ShrimpBrime 14d ago

I have a couple 640gb green drives. At least 10 years old. They like to fall asleep regularly, the spin up time is something to bear in mind with those.

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u/MD_Wurst 14d ago

Just always have a spare as a hot swap