Hi,
the title says a lot, I basically ended up to the conclusion that is better to buy an M2 2TB PCI 3 (v3 at least) instead of a 5TB HDD...
These HDDs run too hot, especially on the initial Time Machine backup, which would last for around 5h for 1.5 TB (my max expected content).
My WD 5TB goes up to 57 degrees with a 19 degrees room................ Without writing on it, it stays around 33, just before the 35 degree optimal max declared by WD.
I'm not sure if the 4TB model runs so hot, but it's anyway a risk, plus, with daily turn on and off, I'm afraid that it wouldn't last too long anyway...
Hourly snapshots no way, that would kill the disk very soon... It already makes a weird sound when it shuts off .
Online people reported the same, so it seems that there is no way to cool down such HDDs, and it's obvious, they are stuck inside the case without heatsink and air flow, I mean, it's completely closed, unbelivable...
I need to backup up 1.5TB of files but the daily changes are very little, stuff for 100MB.
I'm thinking to buy a 2TB M2, these days the prices are quite close to a 5TB HDD, and an HDD is quite risky compared to an M2, that btw it has 1200 TBW.
I know that I'm comparing a 5TB HDD with an M2 2TB, but it is what it is, it's sufficient for Time Machine.
Plus, very soon I'll remove 1TB of data, just the time to transfer them to another cloud provider , so I'll have 500GB + 300GB for a VM in the worst case scenario.
Questions
1. Any remark?
2. Do you know any M2 adapter compatible with MacOS? Something official I mean, not some random soldered board .
3. I'll be able to look at an heatsink by myself, but any suggestion is welcome.
4. I'd like to connect it through USB3, I don't need the Thunderbolt speed, in this way I don't need to attach another cable to the MacBook (let's save the MacBook ) plus those enclosures are very expensive... Anything wrong with it?
the title says a lot, I basically ended up to the conclusion that is better to buy an M2 2TB PCI 3 (v3 at least) instead of a 5TB HDD...
These HDDs run too hot, especially on the initial Time Machine backup, which would last for around 5h for 1.5 TB (my max expected content).
My WD 5TB goes up to 57 degrees with a 19 degrees room................ Without writing on it, it stays around 33, just before the 35 degree optimal max declared by WD.
I'm not sure if the 4TB model runs so hot, but it's anyway a risk, plus, with daily turn on and off, I'm afraid that it wouldn't last too long anyway...
Hourly snapshots no way, that would kill the disk very soon... It already makes a weird sound when it shuts off .
Online people reported the same, so it seems that there is no way to cool down such HDDs, and it's obvious, they are stuck inside the case without heatsink and air flow, I mean, it's completely closed, unbelivable...
I need to backup up 1.5TB of files but the daily changes are very little, stuff for 100MB.
I'm thinking to buy a 2TB M2, these days the prices are quite close to a 5TB HDD, and an HDD is quite risky compared to an M2, that btw it has 1200 TBW.
I know that I'm comparing a 5TB HDD with an M2 2TB, but it is what it is, it's sufficient for Time Machine.
Plus, very soon I'll remove 1TB of data, just the time to transfer them to another cloud provider , so I'll have 500GB + 300GB for a VM in the worst case scenario.
Questions
1. Any remark?
2. Do you know any M2 adapter compatible with MacOS? Something official I mean, not some random soldered board .
3. I'll be able to look at an heatsink by myself, but any suggestion is welcome.
4. I'd like to connect it through USB3, I don't need the Thunderbolt speed, in this way I don't need to attach another cable to the MacBook (let's save the MacBook ) plus those enclosures are very expensive... Anything wrong with it?