I'm looking for help deciding, or maybe with info I haven't found on my own and or experience you have with these drives.

I'm finally pulling the trigger on a drive (more in the future, for now I still have a few smaller ones on my desktop for backup) specifically for use on my home server, so far I've been doing fine with my 2.5' hdd but besides running tight on space, I want a more reliable drive.

I've been researching and looking up options within my budget, payment methods and such and ended up with two options, both WD (the options I've found on seagate are a bit more expensive):

• WD80EFPX WD red plus 8TB (in three different stores at similar enough prices, not sure if that's relevant here)
• WD120EFGX WD red plus 12 TB, not too much more expensive Note that I've skipped 10 TB reds because I've read those have a couple problems like being abnormally noisy and unreliable

As far as I could find out, it seems this 12 TB option is a bit louder (I'm not sure if 30 vs 24 dB is too much, but idk really) and a bit slower data throughput (despite spinning the platters faster, or at least saying so in the specs), but I couldn't find anything about them being particularly unreliable (though I'm new to buying drives for reliability, unfortunately, timing-wise). I do want more storage (who doesn't?), but I'd rather focusing on reliability between these options.

While I don't exactly intend to run RAID, I ended up choosing nas drives for the 24/7 intended usage, I don't think it'll make much difference but I rather the peace of mind, my use is immich for photos (hence the reliability), jellyfin for a small selection of stuff (which doesn't require that much performance as far as I can tell) and a few small services that will mostly live on the ssd (and general NAS usage too, no need for much performance). Similarly big drives for regular use aren't that much cheaper anyways (between the options I have available and accounting for the reliability thing) but will still value your input on the topic, I'm still open to just looking for regular drives if it turns out I'm wrong about that.

Quick note on the topic of noise: I have my home server in the same space as my desktop and the noise of my desktop is already a bit much, It's fine but it's not far from being annoying, Can't hear anything from the server and hope it won't change much after the new drives (I'll focus on making my desktop quieter in the future).

Only other similarly dense (and priced) drives I've found are Seagate IronWolf ST8000VN004 8TB, Seagate Barracuda 8TB ST8000DM004 and then a bunch of surveilance drives which I've read again and again aren't worth getting for NAS or homelab usage.

Hope this is not too far from the topic of selfhosting since it's mostly about storage (for use in a home server).

As you can see, being succinct is not my specialty, sorry for the long post.

As the title says, for a brief time a while ago I modded valheim and found r2modman and felt it was one of if not the best experience I've had modding games, it was especially sweet because I could mod the game with my friend who's on windows and the process was the exact same so helping them was no issue.

I wanted to know what other similar software there is for modding on linux, since the game collection it works on is kinda limited (I only own a few of those) and whenever I want to mod a particular game I end up overwhelmed with steps and options.

To avoid just a list of every linux mod manager under the sun, most of the experience modding with r2modman is: picking a game > hitting download > play There's usually not much you have to do for a specific mod to work besides adding it to the list, and it keeps the game files squeaky clean.

Before you scream at your screen, I am aware this setup isn't ideal, to say the least, my Self-hosting has been composed of a laptop with a usb carry with a 2.5 1tb hard drive. I recent made up my mind about getting a couple 4 tb server hdd (heard barracuda are relatively silent) to run software raid 1, since I can't find a budget double bay carry (that I can purchase locally) I've decided I'll get a couple 3.5 inch usb cases and get a splitter to run the power from just just one brick.

My question is regarding resiliency, I get occasional blackouts and low tension every now and then, a few times a year but it can be a few times in a day. I've never had hardware dying because of it and I don't have a UPS, but I worry I could be risking data corruption or something swapping to this setup because of the extra power those drives will need being fed from the wall instead of the laptop (the laptop feeds the current drive over usb alone and it has a battery) which could be abruptly cut off every now and then. Right now, the worst this has caused has been having to reboot the system because it got unmounted but never had a loss of data from this.

Am I worrying for nothing? Would it be just the same? Should I just put this off until (if) I can afford the drives plus a ups? So far I've had my server for basically free, but I'm running out of space for family photos and I kinda have to upgrade.

Edit: Thanks a lot for all the thoughtful responses! What I've learnt from them so far:

• ZFS (what's used for software RAID) takes some extra memory and might not be the best idea for a memory constrained system.
• In this case of mirrored drives, it's better to schedule backups than to try a flimsy raid array usb abomination, didn't even think of that as an option
• Sudden power loss is likely to corrupt files
• Following the previous item, a UPS is more important than I thought, my laptop's battery probably saved me from more corruption than I was aware of. I might have to prioritize that over the expansion.

Learned a lot so far, thank you all so much!