Hello ! I have a custom build NAS currently using 4x6TB hard drives in RAID10. I am looking for a capacity upgrade. My main focus are low power consumption and low noise (the NAS is in my living room / home office).
I can’t seem to find any 5400RPM HDD over 8TB in capacity anywhere. Is there any model with 10, 12 or more TB in existence ? If not, what could be the reasons ?
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Can’t you just slow them down? I remember doing that with a home theatre PC. I configured it with
hdparmto go to sleep very quickly and not run very fast because the movies I watched didn’t need much throughput.I think constantly changing noise is worse than a slightly louder but constant noise.
It’s a niche of the hard drive market. It persists in “surveillance” HDDs but that’s because they’re optimized for endurance, and low noise is just a side effect.
Not too many people are putting a NAS in their living room.
Thanks, I will look for surveillance types of disks.
Living room is my only option.
at some point the stock motors will just evolve and the slow ones wont be available anymore. the supply chain will upgrade even if they dont require speed
