Most reliable SSD solution for 10 TB of data?

[maxmaut]

Hey all, I am looking to buy some very reliable storage for use with MacOS.
I currently have Glyph Raid 0 SSD that at a certain point stopped being recognized by MacOS and I had to use 3rd party apps to recover the data from (it spent it's lifetime on my table in the office room), and I have decided to replace it by a Samsung T7 shield that keeps having the dreaded slow write speed issues, even after all the firmware updates, OS updates and running the stupid samsung magician app.

I store a lot of family archives on these drives and they hold tremendous sentimental value to me. I want to get something new and reliable to store this data and maybe keep using current SSDs as a backup.

I understand every brand has issues, I searched this forum for 'reliable ssd' before posting and people were recommending the T7 shield there which I found ironic. But is there something that is maybe an overkill for this application and would thus provide a higher degree of reliability? RAID where everything is written twice?

Would appreciate any advice on this. Thank you!

 

[smirking]

Before you pitch your T7 are you sure the issue is the drive and not the cable?

It's not surprising that you needed special utilities to recover from a RAID 0 volume. RAID 0 is for speed, not redundancy which leads to the question why were you using RAID 0 given that it sounds like you're concerned about having a safe backup? If you have a RAID 1 setup, if one dies, the other is fine.

If you're just keeping archives, you should be OK without the fastest interfaces. An good hard drive is plenty fast for most archival purposes.

 

[JSRinUK]

I know it’s not what you are looking for, but when I’d amassed ~16TB of media files, I grabbed a couple of 20TB external HDDs and did manual syncing between the two.

I was using Windows at the time, but I don’t see why the same couldn’t be achieved on my Mac. These days, one of those HDDs is attached to my TV for watching, the other is elsewhere for archive/safety purposes.

Speed wasn’t my priority for these files, so it worked for me.

 

[Bigwaff]

I store a lot of family archives on these drives and they hold tremendous sentimental value to me. I want to get something new and reliable to store this data and maybe keep using current SSDs as a backup.

I understand every brand has issues, I searched this forum for 'reliable ssd' before posting and people were recommending the T7 shield there which I found ironic. But is there something that is maybe an overkill for this application and would thus provide a higher degree of reliability? RAID where everything is written twice?

If your "reliability" goal is to never lose 10TB of data, then RAID1 or above, along with a HDD backup taken offsite. I choose HDD because 10TB capacity is much less expensive compared to the same SSD capacity and fast access is non-issue.

 

[buggz]

10TB of SSD data would require 20TB of SSD space total, or greater for reliability?
As I read from these forums, you don't want to go > 70% capacity of SSD?

 

[Ray2]

10tb? 8's aren’t cheap, I suspect >8 is going to be enterprise level. I use 2 Samsung 870’s in a RAID enclosure. Have been fine for 2-3 years. Serving video so nothing extreme. hdd's would likely have been a more cost effective approach but my office is in a small quiet space and I hate noise.

 

[maxmaut]

Thank you all for your advice. I think the way to go would be to get an enclosure and do a RAID1. Acasis has a sale going on in SEA right now and I can either go for a 2-bay enclosure with 2 sticks of 8TB or go for their 4-bay enclosure and just make 2 RAID1 discs with 4 4TB sticks.

I have decided to avoid HDD as I am moving every 1-2 years for work and am worried about mechanical impact during long overseas moves.

If anyone has any opinion on the 2 vs 4 bay solution I have mentioned above I would appreciate it. Seems like the 2-bay solution will take me somewhere near 2400 dolalrs (not USD), while the 4-bay solution would be around 1500.

I will then have 8TB of storage available and back up the most critical data there, and keep using existing drives for non-crucial media.