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I know I know…I shucked the Easystore drives and I always shot for the $15/TB mark.
With that said, considering the chip shortage, I am not sure how realistic the $15/TB target price is. Plus, I bought the Synology 4-bay 920+ from a few weeks ago. I started looking into the WD Red Pro, WD Black, WD Gold, Seagate Ironwolf Pro, and Seagate Exos. They are all CMR with 5-year Warranty. I'm really hoping there are better built and more reliable. I value my data - pictures, music, movies, etc. I'd pay a premium for that. For these drives, I'd pay $30/TB.
I was going to buy the WD Ultrastar 6TB for $180 in B&H Video BUT it's OOS. That'd be my preferred choice. For $170, I think this WD black isn't a bad deal.
Get it direct from Western Digital or from Amazon which sells it for the same price.
Western Digital 6TB WD Black Performance Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD6003FZBX
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0792GS...UTF8&psc=1
https://shop.westerndigital.com/p...p-sata-hdd
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You're entitled to your opinion, but your opinion is not fact.
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Also ,any links or pointers on this "enterprise equipment refurbisher " who sells for $15-18/TB would be appreciated.
I'm looking for a 10TB or higher drive.
how much u lose?
Oh. Well, they showed up in stock when I posted.
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This sounds like how we operate. At work, we have a 10-year old EMC. Those 15000 rpm drives stay in. We only had one bad drive so far during its lifespan. We could technically afford two drives falling at the same time - one for running RAID-5 and one for having hot spares on the system.
Black, red and silver.
Shouldn't be keeping drives for 5 years..HA! My 10 year old WD VelociRaptor would like to have a word with you.
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