https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-e...Id=6427995
You may want to avoid the 20TB as that uses SMR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IRjFZ9
expiredEragorn | Staff posted Nov 17, 2022 06:13 PM
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expiredEragorn | Staff posted Nov 17, 2022 06:13 PM
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Seagate and WD sales of HDs keeps dropping (because of SSDs, etc.). Manufacturing lower capacity HD drives won't be worth it.
Yes, there's inflation, but I don't see inflation as an issue for computer electronics. I think it's going the other way as consumers will want to spend less and get more. The big push for WFH electronics has gone through. Now plants are at full capacity and eager to bring in revenues fast. Small stick streaming devices are plentiful and given away for almost free. There will be less demand for consumer high storage needs for most, though some will go the other way.
Attached chart of anticipated capacity shipments going forward.
They are 5400rpm but I still see upwards of 200MB/s read/write.
I believe that they added the easystore line to the exclusions earlier this year.
Correct for today - this should be for everyone starting tomorrow. I'm hoping I'm not wrong but apologies if I am. Worst case scenario everyone just starts downvoting it
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With ZFS, for example, the file system can leverage striping to deliver a speed that is multiple of what a single drive is capable of. Like, with a 6 drive VDEV you will definitely be bottlenecked by 1 GBe and would benefit from your 10 GBe.
In the future I want to do unraid or freenas or.... ?
For anyone who is looking for their first backup drive, this is a really good option. Remember, a backup drive you actually back up to is worth a whole lot more than one you haven't purchased yet.
I am thinking of re-building a Plex library and wondering if I should use the Gold drive for the library and the Elements drive for a backup or pick up a second external and run the library on it instead of the Gold. Anyone have thoughts on why one option would be better than the other? I could use the Gold but like the idea of having the extra storage available. No real reason other than that and not spending another $200.
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"Customer upon recycling any HDD or SSD storage device (excluding USB devices) will get a 10% discount on any new WD or SanDisk Professional HDD (internal, desktop, portable or NAS; excluding easystore drives)"
They specifically exclude EASYSTORE drives now.....
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Their price MATCH policy is that they don't match between the friday before thanksgiving (AKA today) until the day after Cyber Monday. This is a price adjustment, which they don't specify in that policy.
Last year they had a black friday guarantee, where if you buy early and they drop the price, they'll refund you. I can't find that happening this year.
Worst case scenario - tell them you want to do a return and re-buy. Most of the time you don;t even need the product, but since it's still boxed you might as well bring it.
A return and re-buy is basically them doing the return (-$250) and the purchase of one at the current price (+$200) on the same receipt, so you don't need to pay again or wait for a refund, and they'll give you the difference ($50 in this case) on your original method.
You also have to factor in what type of raid array your using and what kind of transfer rates your HBA/Backplane on the NAS is capable of. All my wired devices are on a 10gbe switch with my 16 bay server having a 40gbe uplink running 16 drives in raid 61. At this point the limiting factor is the spinning rust in all those devices but I have no need for anything faster as the server is more for data hoarding and media streaming and not doing any "real" work besides the VMs running on it.
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