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Prosumer/datacentre grade drives aren’t that much more expensive than consumer shite per TB.
I wonder if power loss was what killed my m.2?
"I use Samsung PM9A3 datacentre drives in our storage servers; good bang for buck (3.84TB for £400). Make sure you use U.2 formfactor drives instead of M.2 though: better performance and cooling."
Something to bear in mind when I replace/rebuild the desktop PC I guess...
hippy
Don’t waste your time with SATA, definitely not with spinning rust.
You don’t need expensive branded PCIe to M.2 risers. Check to see if your motherboard supports PCIe bifurcation (splitting a single physical x8/x16 slot into several x4). If so, grab a cheap Gen4 riser off AliX/Amazon/EBay/wherever and stick 2x 4TB drives in there. What’s your mobo model?
I really wouldn’t skimp on the drives themselves though; I can’t beat this drum enough. Cheap consumer drives are a waste of time for your use case: tiny amounts (or none at all) of write cache, totally hobbling write speeds after the first few gigs. Terrible write endurance ratings meaning the drive will become toast much sooner. No power loss protection, so big chance of data corruption if your machine suddenly loses power.
Prosumer/datacentre grade drives aren’t that much more expensive than consumer shite per TB.