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Newegg: Seagate Exos 16TB Enterprise HDD X16 - $379.99

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Newegg: Seagate Exos 16TB Enterprise HDD X16 - $379.99 > Now $382.49
5-year Warranty.
Not 100% familiar with this line from Seagate.
More expensive that the shuckable drive but you get 5 years warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating.
It seems that tomorrow they will have a deal on the 14TB.

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-ex...002P-015K6
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Model: Seagate Exos X16 16 TB Hard Drive

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jdrch
06-05-2020 at 12:09 PM.
06-05-2020 at 12:09 PM.
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Not 100% familiar with this line from Seagate.
More expensive that the shuckable drive but you get 5 years warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating.
It's a datacenter class HDD, i.e. the highest of the top tier, and the highest capacity too. If you need an HDD and can swing this definitely pull the trigger ASAP; these things are tough to find under the high 400s.
I have an Exos X12 and swear by it. I also paid nearly $500 for it.
Good deal find, I'd buy this instantly if I needed a new drive, but right now I don't.
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06-05-2020 at 12:46 PM.
06-05-2020 at 12:46 PM.
Quote from jdrch :
It's a datacenter class HDD, i.e. the highest of the top tier, and the highest capacity too. If you need an HDD and can swing this definitely pull the trigger ASAP; these things are tough to find under the high 400s.
I have an Exos X12 and swear by it. I also paid nearly $500 for it.
Good deal find, I'd buy this instantly if I needed a new drive, but right now I don't.
Thank you.
Are these good for NAS, unraid system? Plex ?
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jdrch
06-05-2020 at 01:02 PM.
06-05-2020 at 01:02 PM.
Quote from BraveClover156 :
Thank you.
Are these good for NAS, unraid system? Plex ?
Datacenter HDDs are the best HDDs you can get for any purpose, period. In fact, they're the only class of 3.5in HDD I buy.
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06-05-2020 at 01:12 PM.
06-05-2020 at 01:12 PM.
just remember not to put all your eggs in one basket.

back up your data at least 2-3 times and use different forms/ways. i.e. different brand and store off site.
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drgka55
06-05-2020 at 01:53 PM.
06-05-2020 at 01:53 PM.
How does the op know that 14tb will be on sale tomorrow?
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redzonetarget
06-05-2020 at 02:08 PM.
06-05-2020 at 02:08 PM.
But what's the chances a standard NAS will support this large a drive? I've got an older EMC and it specifies 6TB as the largest "supported" drive.
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06-05-2020 at 02:34 PM.
06-05-2020 at 02:34 PM.
Quote from drgka55 :
How does the op know that 14tb will be on sale tomorrow?
If you open the deal list on newegg, at the bottom you have the list for tomorrow grey out.
I think I might get the 14tb if tomorrow s price is good.
16tb is a lot if I lose it and also fairly $$$.
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Killroy
06-05-2020 at 02:41 PM.
06-05-2020 at 02:41 PM.
This is $8 cheaper than when I checked three days ago.
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Killroy
06-05-2020 at 02:57 PM.
06-05-2020 at 02:57 PM.
Quote from redzonetarget :
But what's the chances a standard NAS will support this large a drive? I've got an older EMC and it specifies 6TB as the largest "supported" drive.

If it supports drives larger than 4TB, it will almost certainly support larger drives. This drive is also SATA and not SAS, so I would almost guarantee it would work.
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06-05-2020 at 03:23 PM.
06-05-2020 at 03:23 PM.
Quote from BraveClover156 :
If you open the deal list on newegg, at the bottom you have the list for tomorrow grey out.
I think I might get the 14tb if tomorrow s price is good.
16tb is a lot if I lose it and also fairly $$$.
Backup, either separate, in RAID or both is recommended.
I don't think there is much of a difference whether you lose 14GB or 16GB of your stuff.
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Grafe
06-05-2020 at 04:02 PM.
06-05-2020 at 04:02 PM.
Running 4 of these in my nas for my plex box (with a mix of other 10tb and 6tb drives as well), they are perfect for it for my use case so far. As far as unraid goes, i pretty sure LTT (linus tech tips, youtube) used these exact drives in their data center vault running unraid. So yes to that one as well.
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Thank you.
Are these good for NAS, unraid system? Plex ?
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06-05-2020 at 04:05 PM.
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Datacenter HDDs are the best HDDs you can get for any purpose, period. In fact, they're the only class of 3.5in HDD I buy.
Backblaze is a datacenter that uses ton of drives and they post statistics on failure rates. The failure rate between datacenter and consumer drives is negligible. Never trust your data to any drive whether it be enterprise or consumer, always backup to another source.
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jdrch
06-05-2020 at 04:23 PM.
06-05-2020 at 04:23 PM.
Quote from Slickdeezee :
Backblaze is a datacenter that uses ton of drives and they post statistics on failure rates. The failure rate between datacenter and consumer drives is negligible. Never trust your data to any drive whether it be enterprise or consumer, always backup to another source.
  1. The speed difference isn't negligible
  2. Backblaze doesn't specify workload for each drive model. Higher workloads = higher failure rates
  3. My data is backed up in ZFS, Btrfs, and DrivePool arrays, on-disk snapshots, and offsite cloud
Use whatever works best for you. The warranty, workload rating, and performance peace of mind datacenter drives come with are well worth the extra investment for me.
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06-05-2020 at 04:37 PM.
06-05-2020 at 04:37 PM.
Quote from jdrch :
  1. The speed difference isn't negligible
  2. Backblaze doesn't specify workload for each drive model. Higher workloads = higher failure rates
  3. My data is backed up in ZFS, Btrfs, and DrivePool arrays, on-disk snapshots, and offsite cloud
Use whatever works best for you. The warranty, workload rating, and performance peace of mind datacenter drives come with are well worth the extra investment for me.
I am hoping to get the 14tb tomorrow around $300.
16tb at $400 with taxe is a lot.
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