What hard drive are you using?

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If using Dual LITE what hard drive are you using with it? And how has that hard drive been working for you?

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WD Scorpio Blue WD3200BEVT, ran a couple years with out issue in one unit and another just over a year in another. Each in a Sabrent EC-UST25 enclosure.

Now have a Tablo Quad and retired one so far.

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WD (2TB) Elements Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0. The Tablo Dual Lite will use downward capable USB 2.0 which is fine for everything it is doing.

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I am using a 5TB WD drive I got on sale at BestBuy for $100! Has been working like a charm so far.

5TB WD Drive

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4Tb Seagate Barracuda internal. Yes it fits in the Quad, just the bottom does not fully close. :smile:

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Crucial MX500 1TB SSD on sale for $80 from Best Buy as my quad lives in the bedroom to be close to the attic antenna and silent operation is a must.

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Same!

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Given the Tablo is an always on device the SSD is likely always on as well, and supposedly the MX500 suffers from a firmware bug with excessive write amplification when it’s always on. This quickly decreases the life of the drive. See link below. You could always pop the SSD into a computer to use the Crucial tool to see the remaining life. It’s just a warning, if the SSD dies prematurely you’ll know why. At least the drive has a 5 year warranty.

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Exactly 5 year warranty and was $40 less than a Samsung EVO. I’ll take my chances.

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Over the last six years with three different Tablos, I started with an external Seagate Expansion, then needed more space, upgraded to an external 6 TB WD Elements. While I love SSDs, using them to do five or six daily recordings really makes a lot of rewrite cycles on them – not sure that is good long-term solution?

I have been running my latest build since December 2020. I did not want to post about it until I had a few months of heavy duty recording use on it. I have to say that the wire mesh external enclosure keeps the drive really, really cool and the Tablo likes the controller chipset: https://www.amazon.com/Inateck-Inch-Enclosure-Support-SA01003/dp/B07N63MXN6/

The drive is made for 24x7 video surveillance and the Seagate Skyhawk drives larger than 4 TB are 7,200 RPM: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Skyhawk-Surveillance-Hard-Drive/dp/B07H28M89D/

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In a few months my original 2 tuner Tablo will celebrate its 6th birthday. :birthday: Its hard drive, a Fantom Drives 1tb drive, is several years older. Both are performing without issue.

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