KVR Audio

keyman_sam · Post by **keyman_sam** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:21 pm

Does anyone know what HDD to use for this? I got a 2.5" HDD and it doesn't fit.

This is for backup of my SSDs, so I'm looking at 4 TB or more.

jdnz · Post by **jdnz** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:50 pm

in 2.5hdd there's multiple height 'standards' ( everything from 5mm to 19mm) - so measure the HDD you have that doesn't fit and have a guess how much it's too tall by?

samsung sata ssd are generally 7mm ( 860evo sata, 850 pro etc) - in hdd that height is pretty limiting ( looking at the 2.5 barracuda specs that means just the 1 and 2tb models - 3tb and up 15mm which makes sense as they need an extra platter to get the capacity up).

Maybe think about using samsung QVO ssds instead - certainly the cheapest $/tb in ssd right now if you can live with the sustained write speed limits

moss · Post by **moss** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 12:02 pm

I ran into the same issue by ordering the 5TB Barracuda which is simply VERY high.

If you know of any HD which is > 4TB and does fit, please let me know.

superscan · Post by **superscan** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 12:15 pm

I use Samsung 860 and 870 SSD and Crucial SSD with no issues.

Adrian Earnshaw Music · Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:41 pm

I use a mixture of Samsung and Crucial SSD's and they fit nicely. I tend to use it as a hot swap for my growing sample library collection, which works nicely.

keyman_sam · Post by **keyman_sam** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:33 pm

Yes I'm aware of SSDs that work with Blackmagic. I have 3 myself. This is really only for HDD. I was hoping for a high-capacity HDD?? How else do people archive their SSDs?

I do have a time machine backup to NAS. I was hoping to use CCC in addition to it but CCC doesn't use NAS. So I need a high capacity HDD I can put in the Blackmagic dock.

keyman_sam · Post by **keyman_sam** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:42 pm

Found one - 7mm height - Max capacity I could find is 2TB:
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCud ... B079BQS5WQ

Wish they had a 4TB in that form factor. Well, I suppose I could use the 2TB for system image. And the NAS for samples/projects backup. Hmm..

Warning - don't get from Amazon. It looks like the warranty is not honored.

jdnz · Post by **jdnz** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:43 pm

keyman_sam wrote: Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:33 pm Yes I'm aware of SSDs that work with Blackmagic. I have 3 myself. This is really only for HDD. I was hoping for a high-capacity HDD?? How else do people archive their SSDs?

a more conventional form-factor NAS with 3.5" bays - as all the trully large capacity drives (16tb and up) are 3.5" not 2.5"

Adrian Earnshaw Music · Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:30 pm

I was a little brief in my response and thought I would just follow up further.

If you are wanting to create backups of your SSDs then I would have gone the route that jdnz suggested. I have a simple 2 bay Synology NAS with 8tb of useable storage. All my sample libraries are backed up to this thing alongside my projects, both current and archived. Only the stuff I cannot replace is backed up to the cloud.

The use case for the Blackmagic Dock is for hot swapping drives in and out when you want to use them. For example if you have a lot of sample libraries you can hot swap the drives in and out depending on the project you are working on (this is what I do). They are also great for moving material between stations. You may have recorded a load of samples to an SSD and then plug in the drive to the dock and you can edit them in your DAW.

I haven't seen large capacity mechanical drives at a 2.5" form factor, only ones you can find inside laptops that are slow, and quite frankly not safe for long term data archiving.

What HDD for Blackmagic multidock?