I wouldn’t think so. 5400 rpm drives might last longer if we’re specifically thinking about mechanical wear. My main takeaway is that WDC has the best. I would use the largest number available which is the final chart which you also point out. One thing which others have also pointed out that there is no metadata included with these results. For example the location of different drives, i.e. rack and server-room specific data. These would control for temperature, vibration and other potential confounders. Also likely that as new servers are brought online, different SKUs are being bought in groups, i.e. all 10 TB Seagate Ironwolf. I don’t know why they haven’t tried to use linear or simple machine learning models to try to provide some explanatory information to this data, but nevertheless I am deeply appreciative that this data is available at all.

Backblaze reports HDD reliability data on their blog. Never rely on anecdata!

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/

Ah, thank you for explaining. I understand where you’re coming from. Nevertheless, from the point of a view a small NAS, RAIDZ1 is much more space and cost efficient so I think there is room for “pets” in the small homelab or NAS.

I get that. But I think the quote refers to corporate infrastructure. In the case of a mail server, you would have automated backup servers that kick-in and you would simply pull the rack of the failed mail server.

Replacing drives based on SMART messages (pets) means you can do the replacement on your time and make sure you can do resilvering or whatever on your schedule. I think that is less burdensome than having a drive fail when you’re quite busy and being stressed about having the system is running in a degraded state until you have time to replace the drive.

I mean if it’s homelab, it’s ok to be pets. Not everything has to be commoditized for the whims of industry.

I think solely focusing on usability for “power-users” single page makes sense. Nevertheless, I think web design seems to prefer many pages though I don’t know if that’s driven by user-friendliness or driving up the “click-through” rate.

I don’t know if you’re into this, but this would be a perfect project to learn a new language or framework.

Do you mean RTSP? Camera: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086L8TWM5?psc=1

Also use Motion with post-Motion capture alerts sent via XMPP. Got the family on XMPP so it works out.

Not answering your question, BUT I went with POE IP camera in the end. They one I got form Amazon has an IR blaster and filter so it can see in black and white at night. No good Open-source HW options for that as far as I’m aware. Access via an RTSP on VLC or MPV. I use motion to access web streams and motion detection

After that I agree with the other responses on here. With price being a wash, I prefer larger drives for less hands-on replacement and lower power usage.

Price is king for me! I optimize for lowest price per TB with good quality drives.

https://diskprices.com/