Reddit reviews Seagate BarraCuda 5TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 2.5 Inch Sata 6Gb/s 5400 RPM 128MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC (ST5000LM000)

Consumer HDDs easily reach 8TB these days. Even in 2.5" form factor, here's a 5TB going for $181

Going by this link from the other comments a 10MB 1960 HDD costed nearly $36,000

Insanity

Nope it fits in the standard size Dell 2.5" bays. And yup, the portable is the one you want. They don't label any of the 3.5" drives as portable. Stay away from western digital. They use actual USB interfaces built into the drive boards instead of a Sata to USB adapter like seagate. These are the exact drives you'll get inside them. They even have their own warranty compared to the external assembly but it is always shorter. Try to carefully take the drive apart so you can reassemble it for warranty work. Always use Raid with failure tolerance as well. These high density drives are not as vibration resistant as enterprise drives are. If you can squeeze some rubber shims between them and the drive trays you'll be golden though. You want to isolate them from the server chassis as much as possible to increase lifespan. I run 16 in raid 10 myself and went through about 8 drives in 2 years before I started insulating them. Failures have been few and far between since then. Also remember, these are 5400 RPM drives so a Raid card with a healthy cache size is your best friend. Always use a "P" PERC card with these guys.

Can you get 10TB of data in your case for anywhere near the same price? Those are 5TB drives pictured - while I know there are 5TB 2.5" that's still mechanical + they are double thick, not to mention have [slightly] worse performance and cost ~50% more.

I Doubt you can find a 5TB SSD for sale at all, and even if you can I'd be impressed if you can find it for less than 1.5k. If you have to use more than 2 to get the same storage you a.) are taking up more space than the 3.5" or 2.5" mech would. b.) using more sata slots which are fairly limited on most mITX boards.

There are 4 TB 2.5" hard drives and actually even 5 TB. At 15 mm, they're a little too thick to fit into a PS4 without modifications, but it has been done.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01M0AADIX/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1520148519&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=2.5+5+tb&dpPl=1&dpID=515e9RIPMGL&ref=plSrch

5tb 2.5" hard drive. They exist, they're just slow and expensive.

The largest 2.5" magnetic hard drive is the Seagate 5TB (ST5000LM000) if your looking for raw space.


https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX

On the Ubiquiti forum one of the employees, "TomS" said he uses this drive:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX/

5TB 2.5" drives are $150, so $1500 for 50TB? That doesn't seem to difficult and/or expensive, to me.

A lot of the times these portable drives are cheaper than regular drives and when they go on sale it makes it much cheaper to buy and "shuck" the case. I bought this 5tb portable drive on sale for 150, instead of dishing out 130 dollars more [on this internal one.] (https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-Barracuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX) It doesnt make sense for everyone but if you have an SFFPC or a laptop then its worth it to shuck.

I've had these (5TB 2.5inch seagate) in my 'things to buy later' list since I got my SFF 710. I currently am running 8x 1TB laptop drives an SSD in the CDRom tray.

Would think eventually as space is needed could get a good amount of storage in there with 8x 5TB drives..

Maybe im not understanding something here but..
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-2-5-Inch-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX

5tb 2.5" drive.

Seagate makes up to 5TB? In the 2.5" line. I have a 2TB in mine.

It is sometimes a better deal to convert an external drive. Both drives are the exact same model.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-2-5-Inch-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M00UHV8/


https://youtu.be/96q7u-Ku-EI

Big 2.5" HDDs, like this 5TB, seemingly are not designed for NAS continuous operation.

Today the biggest 2.5" WD RED is this 1TB.

We hope the launch of DS620 slim will compress the release schedule of desirable 2.5" NAS drives.

ATL on this by $10, in stock Jul 17

According to datahoarder the drive in this is the barracuda 5tb, which is currently the largest 2.5" (15mm) drive available. It is SMR, the largest 2.5" PMR drive is 4TB

And unless you can confirm this seagate_surfer don't show up with the worthless spec sheet thanks

you could also check out Seagate 2.5" HDD's they are up to 5TB drives, for $150-200, they don't fit in laptop(big ones, smaller capacity to 1 or 2TB do fit) because they are T H I C C, but will fit just fine in this case


https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX

Ideally, the PS5 would have both.

For SSD, either on-board NAND flash or user-replaceable M.2 SSD card with a small, but reasonable 256GB to 512GB to store OS, apps and a few of your most recently used games. Secondary internal storage would still be a user-replaceable 2.5" mechanical HDD, preferably 2TB, but designed to easily fit larger 15.5mm z-height drives up to 5TB (LINK). External USB drives would also be supported.

What about these 5TB Seagate ST5000LM000 - https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX - Are these SMR? Can't find any data confirming the type. I know they aren't "shuckable" as they're usually sold as bare drives to begin with, but they seem to be the highest capacity 2.5 I can find.

For those who have the Thermaltake Suppressor F1 case... I'm wondering how much clearance is available on the 2.5" HDD/SSD side of the storage slot. Would anyone with the case be able to take a quick measurement? Looking for an exact measurement if possible... my goal is to possibly mount a 15mm height ST5000LM000 on that side of the storage slot.

Well there's also this but it's more expensive, btw I have the 2tb version but I believe the 4tb is the same size according to the description on amazon.

I don't have any suggestions for cases off the top of my head, but for the hard drive, is the 3.5" drive a hard requirement? They make 2.5" hard drives up to 4 TB, so if you don't need a specific 3.5" drive, that may help you to cut down on size.

Edit: make that 5 TB

Honestly this can vary greatly, but I'm able to stomach the risk of a 7TB on my NAS (zfs + snapshots on raid 5 for data protection), but you can get pretty crazy on a low budget, I've considered setting up an IPSec between two sites (mine and a coworkers) and basically replicate my current NAS to a gigabyte brix with something like this in it:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-2-5-Inch-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX


You can run the tunnel on the cheap with another brix + ethernet dongle and pfsense. Figured that whole "solution" would cost less than a year on the coldest cloud storage, or at least you would see ROI in a few years, heck if the drive goes past 5 years it's really a steal! If you buy a domain name for this, say through godaddy, you can use a public ip identifying service and their API to provide your own dynamic dns updates as well (I do this now with a simple powershell script on task scheduler).


Good luck I hope you find something that works for you!

I'm late to the party (sorry) but spotted this AMA and figured it'd be worth a shot anyway.

I have one of these running as a home server. It only has 24GB of RAM instead of the 72GB on that listing, and it also only came with 2x80GB SAS disks and 14 empty bays. I've been slowly filling those bays with 5TB 2.5" SATA disks. It's up to six of those now. There are two chassis in the server, each with an HP Smart Array P410 controller and eight disk bays. Each chassis has one of the 80GB disks the system came with and 3 of the 5TB disks.

I'm considering setting up Ceph on this thing as a single-host installation and using CephFS to run as a file server. From my understanding, this would entail running a monitor, MDS, and management daemon on the server, plus one OSD per disk, for a total of six. The default configuration would make three copies of all data, so 30TB of raw disk capacity would translate to 10TB usable if I have it right. If I dropped it to two copies, that'd yield 15TB of usable space.

Is this an even remotely good idea? I know if the server hardware dies, there's no redundancy (and the cluster dies with it until I can get the disks and configuration into replacement hardware), but besides that (rather major) caveat would this produce a usable filesystem that can withstand losing a disk without dropping data on the floor and has reasonable performance? This is just a home file server, so "reasonable performance" just means "can handle traffic from a few clients on a gigabit network."

When I first got the server last year and only had 2 5TB disks in it, I installed one in each chassis and set up a mirrored ZFS vdev across them. Ye gods was that ever slow. Somehow ZFS could never get more than about 20MB/sec on sequential writes to one of the disks in the pair (and it alternated -- sometimes it'd be disk 1 and other times it'd be disk 2) and it was nearly unusable. I got rid of the vdev and just formatted the disks with btrfs, and they've been nice and snappy ever since. The disks I've added since have been fine, too. ZFS just really seemed to hate spanning a mirrored vdev across two controllers. My main concern is whether Ceph might experience something similar. The HP Smart Array controllers are (in)famous for their horrible performance when their battery-backed cache module's batteries die, but even after replacing the modules and their batteries (thus satisfying the controllers' demands) performance was still lousy until I took ZFS out of the picture.

The server can accommodate up to 144GB of RAM, and though memory for it isn't cheap these days I can still afford to bump it up from its current 24GB to, say, 72GB if you think this might be a reasonable setup but for the current RAM size.

Is it worth a shot, or am I begging for heartache?

Thanks!

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Create a crush map to store data (cephfs) on a seperate root then use SSDs for database storage and the second root for large files.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1509802095&sr=8-3&keywords=5tb+2.5+hard+drive

Should provide lots of storage in 2.5" for fairly cheep.

This is what my crush map looks like right now...
https://i.imgur.com/CbqarvP.png

As it stands right now though, the largest capacity 3.5 HDDs are nowhere near the capacity of 3.5" SSDs in terms of storage, and even there you're having to use helium and/or SMR, and in the 2.5" space SSDs already best HDDs as your max there is 5TB, Samsung this year released a 30TB 2.5" SSD. SSDs for the foreseeable future will always beat out HDDs in capacity, price is an issue yes, but prices seem to be dropping rapidly. Even then, again, if SSDs even just get close to HDDs in price and never surpass them, the added/hidden cost of HDDs in terms of power use and drive replacements (again in a Plex use case your SSDs are not worn down hardly at all) will make the SSDs the better buy.