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I have bought several of these SMR drives and they can be SLOW!!! This might be OK for backup drives though.... if you are patient. By going to Device Manager and then 'Disk drives', then 'Policies' for the drive, you can speed it up a bit by choosing the better performance options. -TidalWaveOne
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Buy it after you know what exactly SMR is and decide to take the risk. SMR doesn't only mean slow speed, it can also lose data if not taken care of, for example abrupting the writing process while you think it has stopped working.
Check my comments: https://slickdeals.net/f/15350722-costco-members-starts-11-15-seagate-backup-plus-hub-8tb-external-desktop-hard-drive-119-99?p=150687460#
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Anyone know what kind of drive is inside?
edit: looks like they are smr drives. need to see how they will work with unRAID.
not recommended for raid configurations.
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These were/are really solid as Chia drives to store and farm plots on back when they went on sale during the early spring harddrive hype.
My WDs were much faster. I found out that Seagates, by default, turn off write caching on externals. If you want to boost speed, you can turn them back on. After I turned on write caching, speeds are comparable to WDs but I haven't done any in depth testing.
The HUB feature is really worthwhile but I have had several of those fail.
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Got to call BS.
You should not have thrown out a defective hard drive. Who would just trash a drive that could easily be RMAd or returned to Costco?
They have a 2-yr warranty. which gets extended from Costco and further extended if you used their Citicard. If you are serious, you did it wrong. Life has no guarantees, but warranties are there just in case.
Costco has the best return policy and Seagate gives 2-year data recovery services included with this Costco purchase to attempt to recover your data.
@madshakes, don't sweat it. This has a 2-yr warranty and Costco has easy returns if that happens.
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