<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Calvin Dodge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caldodge@gmail.com" target="_blank">caldodge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="h5">On Apr 18, 2016 5:57 PM, "Douglas Sargent" <<a href="mailto:dbsargent@gmail.com" target="_blank">dbsargent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div> I have 4 x 2TB disks which have been up and running the last 3 years nonstop, with no issues... cross your fingers.</div><div><br></div><div> Can someone recommend big disks that are reliable.</div><div><br></div><div> Once I buy them. Will it be as simple as mount it, copy everything across, unmount the old, the mount the new with the name of the old one. Seems right but way to easy. Darn I like Linux.</div><div><br></div><div> thanks guys</div><div><br></div><div>Doug</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><p style="margin-left:40px">Backblaze has seen the best reliability with 4TB HGST
drives, so that's what I use. You have it right on how to transfer the
files.</p><div style="margin-left:40px"><span class=""><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">Calvin Dodge</p></font></span></div></div><div><br></div><div>I may be recycle-gifted a decommissioned 15 drive array (each 2 TB HGST). Sounds cool, but I don't want to run them in their big wind tunnel rack, and so far I haven't seen any (currently available) consumer/small business 4 to 8 bay NAS that support SAS drives. Anyone have any suggestions in that direction?<br><br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>