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Edited July 13, 2021
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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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Run your drives until they die!
All that being said... $170 for a 6tb feels a little steep. I recently had to replace a 6tb drive from my raid and it was like $100ish. Been using that raid for 6 or 7 years now using the cheapest drives I could find (not WD)
Whatever, you're the chump buying new drives every 3 years "just cause"
used to say this all the time about my 12 drive array that was reaching 10 year mark without any failure but then they started failing eaxh within about a month until I had 4 left. Daily use so still got a great value out of them but lesson learned.
Me too. I built two NAS systems along with a dedicated backup earlier this year and purchased a total of five 18TB drives for the project. The price of those drives have doubled since then. Crazy.
It made my $200 each 4x 14TB Exos shucked from the 14TB external drives like a steal (bought from BH in April, waited 8 weeks), which in fact just regular price not too long ago.
Now moving my stuffs from multiple USB drives to the RAID 5 .
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It made my $200 each 4x 14TB Exos shucked from the 14TB external drives like a steal (bought from BH in April, waited 8 weeks), which in fact just regular price not too long ago.
Now moving my stuffs from multiple USB drives to the RAID 5 .
Of course, all this has absolutely nothing to do with the original deal.
Edit: So I bought the one from Microcenter, and they are the same.