expiredHappyStranger718 posted Nov 23, 2022 02:36 AM
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expiredHappyStranger718 posted Nov 23, 2022 02:36 AM
Costco Members: 5TB Seagate One Portable Hard Drive w/ Data Recovery
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I have 40 of these (yes, you read that correctly) in 2x Supermicro 2u with backplanes being driven by LSI-SAS controllers in IT mode. All disks are in 4-disc RAID-10 arrays (2 striped RAID groups per LVM logical group) being served up to 2 clustered Hyper-V nodes by 4Gbps fiber channel using LIO. Total storage presented to the cluster is ~90 TB and is leveraged as a single logical file system in the VM by Stablebit's DrivePool.
Have I experienced failures? Yes, probably 2 or 3 in 4+ years time of 24x7x365 operation - which I would unscientifically ascertain is no more or less than any other vendor. In fact, my backup server which runs exclusively 3.5" WD drives has had a higher rate of failure.
Considering that most of these drives were shipped to me rattling around in a box, clearly packaged by some idiot who can't tie his/her own shoes, that's not too bad IMO.
Disclaimer: My use case is WORM (write once, ready many), YMMV.
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Is this available in clubs too?
These things are great, all drives can potentially fail, if you're worried about that you should backup to multiple.
I read a breakdown a while back going over these drives and the likelihood of them failing, If I remember the 2 and the 5tb were the most reliable, the others failing more often.
Great price!
Is this available in clubs too?
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