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You hosting anything on HDD instead of SSD/NVMe?

tjntjn Member
edited September 2023 in General

Apart from the obvious backups, iso's and other large file archives - I was wondering what relatively modern applications and use cases you might still be hosting on HDD's instead of SSD/NVMe?

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  • emghemgh Veteran, Megathread Squad

    Stuff where fast read & writes is extremely very important

  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    All my family photos are stored on a 160GB HDD, attached to my home router via USB 2.0 to IDE adapter.
    I keep hearing weird noises at night from this HDD.
    Shall I worry?

    Thanked by 1emgh
  • emghemgh Veteran, Megathread Squad

    @yoursunny said:
    All my family photos are stored on a 160GB HDD, attached to my home router via USB 2.0 to IDE adapter.
    I keep hearing weird noises at night from this HDD.
    Shall I worry?

    It’s probably hungry

    Thanked by 2yoursunny Xrmaddness
  • tjntjn Member
    edited September 2023

    @yoursunny said:
    All my family photos are stored on a 160GB HDD, attached to my home router via USB 2.0 to IDE adapter.
    I keep hearing weird noises at night from this HDD.
    Shall I worry?

    Not to worry - it's just the IDE adapater running a lil warm.
    Can you monitor it over IPv9 or move it to a cooler DC like this one?

    Thanked by 1yoursunny
  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    @emgh said:

    @yoursunny said:
    All my family photos are stored on a 160GB HDD, attached to my home router via USB 2.0 to IDE adapter.
    I keep hearing weird noises at night from this HDD.
    Shall I worry?

    It’s probably hungry

    I know, the power supply is small, the HDD has been spinning in the closet for the past 7 years so that it's feeling hungry with 500mA input current.
    This hunger problem is getting so bad that the entire home router would shutdown if I'm writing faster than 4MB/s.

    Thanked by 1emgh
  • mmuyskensmmuyskens Member, Host Rep

    Sure, my personal Proxmox cluster is using 2x2TB HDDs. Works fine, and is just for personal use.

  • BruhGamer12BruhGamer12 Member

    It acts as my 25 cent per gb of ram promo for my minecraft yearly summer host - it is just free ram right?

    Seriously tho - if you are not sharing the HDD with other people - p2p crypto nodes, while slow to first setup, function fine on them.

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