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45 0 ReplyI wouldn't use a purple drive, those are for security camera feeds.
8 0 ReplyI wondered why the hdd changed colors from my inbox to seeing it here. Lol
6 1 ReplyBecause I'm a ninja.
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I just punched in 12tb drive and that was the first one. I could drop in a 4gb scsi drive instead?
3 0 ReplyWD Red for data hoarding/NAS. People like Barracuda drives as well but I've had bad luck with Seagate reliability in the past.
Also, purples tend to cost more because they are rated for surveillance.
6 0 ReplyMy memes deserve WD gold.
https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-gold-sata-hdd?sku=WD1005FBYZ
6 0 ReplyNow you're talking
2 0 ReplyLOL
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Aka 24/7 read writes of video files. Purples are fine for achieving just pop an SSD cache in your server
3 1 ReplyThe purple drives work well for any write-heavy workload that's constantly writing to disk. Surveillance is just the primary use case.
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WHERE CAN I GET A 24 TB MEMORY DRIVE
3 0 ReplyFound it, and it's $630
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