The best hard drives??

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 02:54:27PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: I've now had time to spin up the server and query all six of these Elements. They are model number WD80EDAZ-11TA3A0, i.e. 7200RPM air-filled Reds. Since you'd normally have to get a Red Pro to guarantee that spec, and those are currently around ?260, I'm obviously quite chuffed that I got these for ?115-?135 a pop even if they're not the holy grail of He8s. I'm getting 1.03GB/s (or 986MiB/s if you have 10.07 fingers) across the six spindles from copying some random data onto the zpool and then doing a scrub: pool: test state: ONLINE scan: scrub in progress since Fri Nov 20 22:43:28 2020 121G scanned at 1.92G/s, 60.7G issued at 986M/s, 121G total 0B repaired, 50.23% done, 0 days 00:01:02 to go That's faster than the SSDs used for the boot volume. What's further distorting prices on some things I import from Germany is that they have a temporary VAT reduction from 19% to 16% due to the plague, but unsurprisingly this made no difference to the VAT-inclusive prices offered to consumers. However, the Dutch VAT rate remained at 21% and since I have to pay the difference when importing so what's actually happened is that Germany has caused a 3% price increase. In some cases its actually 5% because some German sellers used to happily charge the same VAT-inclusive prices to Dutch and German consumers and eat the 2% difference, but 5% is just too much for them to absorb so they charge the "proper" price. Since the Czech Republic also has 21% VAT, do you have this experience too?