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Atanzarian @alien.top

1y ago

Costco - 14TB for $150

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I just shucked those drive from BestBuy sale here in Canada, the drive inside are Exos X14 Mach 2. Essentially those drive are 2x7TB but any os or partition will only see 14TB

Only a one year warranty.... and that's practically being as hidden from consumers as it can be in all the literature released by Seagate for retailers and consumers.
These external desktop backup drives use reconditioned drives, or low on test performance specs out of production.
This is a case of, "It's too good to be true."

I'm a noob looking to build his first NAS server for media. Is this worth buying in bulk to shuck and install into a Synology DS923+? Open to suggestions if anyone is free to advise. Definitely looking to cash in on this black friday sale event.
- You might consider the 18 TB for $200 deal from Best Buy as well for more density, though this deal is better on a terabyte-per-dollar basis.
  I haven't bought Seagate externals to shuck but I've bought a lot of WDs over the years for my Unraid box and I've had no issues with them.
  
  It’s out of stock for me at least on the app
- I’d advise you go for the older 920+. The 923+ dropped hardware acceleration and you’ll want that if you plan on streaming to a plex or other media apps.
  
  Ooh. Thanks for the tip. Plex is a must have.
- https://www.ebay.com/itm/225488782445
  I bought a bunch of these
  
  i did the same, only got 4tb drives, but same brand/model.
  ugh .. i need to upgrade soon

seagate? yeah, no thanks.

i just got an 18TB for 229 pre tax. 57% off
- Where?
  
  You can also check the WD site, I always look there to price check whenever Amazon has a sale.
  
  here
  but you need prime. i already have prime so i pulled the trigger since i need the space atm

Yeah F Seagate shucked drives.

These are available at my Costco. So this is a bad idea?

Wtf damn

I've had good luck with my shucked Seagate. Lots of hate here, but for the price I jumped on it.

Don't these have the x14 exos?

I have a 16tb Seagate desktop but these are pretty noicy when reading or writing
- noice

I see Seagate, I instantly close the page. Never again.
- A Seagate drive with a one year warranty. This is a self-punishment exercise for anybody who buys.
  
  You can return them with the Costco guarantee. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this so far.
- What do you like instead?
  
  Anything
  with a 5 year warranty
  that also holds multiple drives
  where you bought those drives in ways designed to avoid correlated failures
  I can't stop your PSU from exploding. I can keep individual hard drive failures from erasing everything.

Really debating this, anyone know how good the drives are internally?
- From what I've read online, the recently manufactured ones come with EXOS 2X14 Drives.
  
  That would mean these are good no? I bought one when I saw buildapc raving about the EXOS but now I’m second guessing looking here. Everyone assumed it was a barracuda?

good drive for the price also sometimes it makes a sound like someones hittin a vape

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