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14TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive

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Best Buy has 14TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $189.99. Select free store where stock permits. Thanks silentalarm

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SHR always uses one drive with the largest capacity for parity, so putting one 14TB in won't get you anything more than what the Synology has now. You will want to buy at least two 14TB drives. Replace one drive, wait for SHR to rebuild, then repeat with the other new drive. You will end up with 2TB more than current. If you were to replace all four 12TB drives, you would end up with 6TB more than current.
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klutch14u
These won't get lower. BB does this every year, they offer the BF pricing a few weeks ahead of BF and then again at BF. I buy their BF special drives every year and upgrade both my servers and sell off the drives from the year before. It's the exact same scenario every time. This year it's the 14TB. Last year was the 12TB, 10 before that and 8 before that.

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Oct 29, 2020
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smokey0066
Oct 29, 2020
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in for 4. hope i dont get any duds.
Oct 29, 2020
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ShrewdGuitar880
Oct 29, 2020
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In for 2, thanks OP! Now, since I am a first time "shucker" I need to go find a video of shucking. Will the 3.3v mod need to be applied if I am putting this in a QNAP NAS to replace my 4TB drives?
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user5788
Oct 29, 2020
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In for one.. maybe more
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Jeffers1375
Oct 29, 2020
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Quote from Jake26 :
Wow, thanks for the detailed reply! Definitely gives me a good launching off point! I also realize I have much to learn as I'm going to have to somehow find time to do some extensive research into this. I think 24 bays is a bit overkill for me where I'm currently at, but perhaps a 12-bay system would do the trick and give me some future expansion. I think if I tried to pop that 24 bay into our home office my wife as Martha Stewart incarnate may kill me, lol.
Sure thing! Totally understood about the wife factor. If we didn't have a basement to put all the equipment out of sight / earshot then I'm sure I would have a different setup right now. But I really like the flexibility and upgradeability of having my Plex server on its own dedicated machine, with all of the disks attached in a JBOD setup. A NAS will obviously be cleaner/quieter but you'll also pay for that form factor and UI. And then you have to decide if you want a NAS beefy enough to run Plex on its own (this depends on your use case; some people have lots of friends/family remote streaming from Plex which can require some serious transcoding power depending on how many are viewing at once) or keeping your Plex server separate and just having the NAS do the RAID work. If you Direct Play most/all of your content then Plex doesn't need much power at all to run.

If you haven't already found it, https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ is a great resource for seeing what others have done with their home server setups.
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Just bought the 8TB on Tue will return it and get 2 14TBs. Now it will fill my Synology DS920 in SHR. Just waiting on a Nvidia Shield Pro deal to finish my 4K plex setup.
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Why shuck this? USB 3.0 speeds are more than sufficient. What benefit do people
Expect to get?
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blackatom31
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Quote from Jake26 :
Seems I may be a bit out of my league here. Was playing with the slider in that link and raid 0 gives me full use of 88TB of data, while Raid 1 only gives me 8tb? Looks like Rai0 provides no data backup (whats the point, then?) and raid 1 is overkill. Is there something that creates a sort of "image reference" of the data that is compressed, that way maybe I could use like 60% of my available TB's and then 40% is backup of that data compressed? I would say 80% of the data stored is video content, so if a drive dies, I just need to be able to restore the last data, not access it instantaneously.
Raid 0 just means you're reading from all the drives at once, more speed, no reliability.
Use SHR (Synology hybrid raid). It allows you to use different size harddrives in the same NAS. I personally have 2x3tb and 3x8tb right now. I can lose any drive and still be good until I slap a new one in.

No matter what raid config you chose you'll ALWAYS lose the equivalent of your largest drive to parity.
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SirLouie
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Quote from shawn.hamill :
Why shuck this? USB 3.0 speeds are more than sufficient. What benefit do people
Expect to get?
Shawn, some people shuck these to get large drives to use in a NAS in a RAID setup for redundancy, which tends to require multiple identical drives. But buying 14TB internal drives is generally more expensive than buying multiples of this one, so they buy and shuck so they can install it inside their NAS, instead of having four-plus drives sitting outside of their server.
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steven99
Oct 29, 2020
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Looking at the deal just realized WD finally came out with the 16tb and 18tb versions...too bad they aren't on sale or available.
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Open1Your1Eyes0
Oct 29, 2020
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Quote from shawn.hamill :
Why shuck this? USB 3.0 speeds are more than sufficient. What benefit do people
Expect to get?
No benefit. They want to repurpose the drives for their own enclosures for reasons this enclosure doesn't provide (RAID/inside computer case, etc...).
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blackatom31
Oct 29, 2020
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Quote from shawn.hamill :
Why shuck this? USB 3.0 speeds are more than sufficient. What benefit do people
Expect to get?
Because these are actually Western Digital Red drives, retailing for $400+. They're designed to work in a NAS (network attached storage) and enterprise environments. Most of us are shucking them to put into our NASes. Also, if you have the space in your tower, may as well make it an internal drive instead of cluttering your desk space with more external drives.
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Amerijapoxicano
Oct 29, 2020
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Quote from plasticspoon :
I literally gasped when I saw the notification for this. I've been waiting for BF for the 14TB to go on sale..but this is like an early christmas.
YOU made me gasp, Plasticspoon.
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Guys, I'm going all in for 4!

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plasticspoon
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Quote from E9KenNy :
What device can play ripped DV now?
my LG c9 can play mp4 remuxes through the Plex app. Android (Shield, Sony TV) can now play DV mkv

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