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I plan to use with optiplex 3060 and need drive for long term seed which means continuous read though the read would be only for few kb

Earlier I had seagate external drive shucked but they died after using for 1 year 24*7

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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I used a 4 TB WD Green for 3 years of torrenting and no trouble. Now it's my security camera HDD as well as some other duplicate storage.

I've been using a refurbished enterprise drive from serverpartdeals.com for about a year and it's still going strong. Plus side: cheap. Downside: refurb.

Since it's torrents I assume it's not critical data, so it shouldn't be too big a deal if the drive fails. Buy two and put them in RAID0¹ if it's actually important.

¹ yeah yeah RAID is not a backup service