Freaking cheap hard drive

[AvatarComputer]

I just saw this on Newegg.ca https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178951. This 8TB hard drive is only 180$ before tax, much cheaper than an internal hard drive with the same size. I am thinking purchasing three or four of them and form a raid 0 with a raid card, to achieve maximum performance. Any thought on this?

[Crunchy Dragon]

My thoughts are if you're getting more than 2 HDDs, have some form of redundancy such as RAID 1 or 5.

 

I'm also pretty sure you don't need a RAID card just to have RAID, most modern motherboards will have RAID support.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Its smr just saying, so if that makes a difference for you stay away. 

 

Don't use a raid card, software raid is better here, and a ssd will still smoke this in terms of performance, esp with random writes.

 

But yea its common, esp with the easy stores being 8tb reds for 150 usd and there wd red drives.

 

Good deal though.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

'm also pretty sure you don't need a RAID card just to have RAID, most modern motherboards will have RAID support.

Don't us that, software raid is so much better. 

[Uebe ifklepgoien]

They look pretty big. Do you have the desk space?

[Jasun]

2 minutes ago, ScytheTrain said:

They look pretty big. Do you have the desk space?

First world problems  

[mpsparrow]

External hard drives are not really made for 24/7 use or to be run in a RAID.

[Uebe ifklepgoien]

12 hours ago, Jasun said:

First world problems  

I mean he might not also have enough ports and he needs an adapter