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I found this its the cheapest 10TB Exos drive on Newegg and looking to buy 4 of them. I will be putting them in my NAS that I use for my media library and pc backups. The price I’m posting this is $130, I’m also looking similar Exos drives that are $250 is there a difference? Should I shell up for the more expensive drives?

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[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I have an Exos x16 and x18 drive and they both spin down fine in Debian using hdparm. I use them for cold storage and they're perfectly adequate.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Care you share your hdparm config then?

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's really boring, Debian 12: /dev/disk/by-uuid/8f041da5-6f7a-4ff5-befa-2d3cc61a382c { spindown_time = 241 write_cache = off }

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Tried that and doesn't seem to work. :(

Relevant documentation for others about -S / spindown_time:

Values from 1 to 240 specify multiples of 5 seconds, yielding timeouts from 5 seconds to 20 minutes. Values from 241 to 251 specify from 1 to 11 units of 30 minutes, yielding timeouts from 30 minutes to 5.5 hours. A value of 252 signifies a timeout of 21 minutes.