Western Digital has 14TB WD Red Plus SATA 3.5" Internal NAS Hard Drive (WD140EFGX) on sale for $209.99. Shipping is free.
Amazon has for Prime Members: 14TB WD Red Plus SATA 3.5" Internal NAS Hard Drive (WD140EFGX) on sale for $209.99. Shipping is free.
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Features:
Supports up to 180 TB/yr workload rate | Workload Rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred to or from the hard drive. Workload Rate is annualized (TB transferred ✕ (8760 / recorded power-on hours)). Workload Rate will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations.
NASware firmware for compatibility
Small or medium business NAS systems in a 24x7 environment
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Western Digital has 14TB WD Red Plus SATA 3.5" Internal NAS Hard Drive (WD140EFGX) on sale for $209.99. Shipping is free.
Amazon has for Prime Members: 14TB WD Red Plus SATA 3.5" Internal NAS Hard Drive (WD140EFGX) on sale for $209.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member WittyKnob7338 for finding this deal.
Features:
Supports up to 180 TB/yr workload rate | Workload Rate is defined as the amount of user data transferred to or from the hard drive. Workload Rate is annualized (TB transferred ✕ (8760 / recorded power-on hours)). Workload Rate will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations.
NASware firmware for compatibility
Small or medium business NAS systems in a 24x7 environment
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This is a common misconception, especially for those that buy RAID-based storage arrays for home use. RAID is primarily for uptime (to survive hardware failures in places where downtime is extremely expensive), and it will work for that case. That's why it's commonly used in servers and datacenters.
In most environments, the primary cause of data loss isn't hardware failure, but user error or another problem (logical disk corruption; accidentally over-writing data, etc). For example, if you accidentally delete some files from your primary drive, in a RAID (mirrored or parity) configuration, the change would commit almost immediately. In a backup scenario (where you use a script or other tool to periodically copy data), you could just use the backup copy. Furthermore, with backups, you can keep many generations of past data; it's all too common to realize you've deleted or over-written something a week or two later, and RAID won't help you get that back. There are potential performance benefits of some RAID configurations, but that's also probably not appropriate for most home use purposes. Also, keep in mind that the more drives you have in a parity-based RAID array, the LESS protected it is (because of the risk of a double-fault). There are other issues, too, like the NAS itself or disk controller/computer being a single point-of-failure.
Unless people are using their at-home NAS devices for other things (like runnning various thin server applications), I think they'd be best-served by using backup methods and online/off-site backups (where possible). Also, on very large drives, think about what data is really important and can't easily be replaced. In most cases, things like games and applications can easily be downloaded again. I hope this helps.
don't listen to anyone. The coupon you receive for registering a WD account DOES NOT STACK with the discount of $90 that you receive instantly. If you try to use their 10% off coupon, it REPLACES the existing coupon making the item much more expensive instead of cheaper.
Buy from Amazon instead as there is no incentive to buy from WD
I'm tempted by this but I couldn't bare to lose 14TB of data. I think the best way of avoiding that is to buy 2 and use RAID 1 - is that correct?
If you can't stand the idea of losing 14TB of data, then you need to back it up. RAID 1 won't save you from a large power surge or house fire. I lost 2 drives when the cooling fan failed and they were baked for weeks while I was on vacation. Backblaze is $130 for 2 years of unlimited backups so you can get 3 years of worry free backups for the cost of the extra drive.
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I'm tempted by this but I couldn't bare to lose 14TB of data. I think the best way of avoiding that is to buy 2 and use RAID 1 - is that correct?
Don't RAID 1 if you just want a primary and a backup. Have a nightly backup from one drive to the other (there are a million way to do this, I'll leave the specifics up to you). This extends the life of the backup drive and you don't have to worry about all the RAID overhead/issues.
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In most environments, the primary cause of data loss isn't hardware failure, but user error or another problem (logical disk corruption; accidentally over-writing data, etc). For example, if you accidentally delete some files from your primary drive, in a RAID (mirrored or parity) configuration, the change would commit almost immediately. In a backup scenario (where you use a script or other tool to periodically copy data), you could just use the backup copy. Furthermore, with backups, you can keep many generations of past data; it's all too common to realize you've deleted or over-written something a week or two later, and RAID won't help you get that back. There are potential performance benefits of some RAID configurations, but that's also probably not appropriate for most home use purposes. Also, keep in mind that the more drives you have in a parity-based RAID array, the LESS protected it is (because of the risk of a double-fault). There are other issues, too, like the NAS itself or disk controller/computer being a single point-of-failure.
Unless people are using their at-home NAS devices for other things (like runnning various thin server applications), I think they'd be best-served by using backup methods and online/off-site backups (where possible). Also, on very large drives, think about what data is really important and can't easily be replaced. In most cases, things like games and applications can easily be downloaded again. I hope this helps.
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Buy from Amazon instead as there is no incentive to buy from WD
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