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I'm looking for 16TB HDDs. They'll be for fairly light usage. Immich will be the heaviest thing running on it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been doing this for at least a decade now and the drives are just as reliable as if you bought them normally. The only downside is having to block one of the pins on the SATA connector with kapton tape for it to work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes yes, but I haven't seen that lately. 5 years ago I had several of those, but I haven't seen it recently

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I think it also depends on the host. I'm running some power-disable disks in my boxes and they didn't require adapters or tape.