Costco Members: 5TB Seagate One Portable Hard Drive w/ Data Recovery
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$124.99
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Costco Wholesale has 5TB Seagate One Portable Hard Drive w/ Data Recovery (STKC5000601) on sale for $89.99 valid for Costco Members only. Shipping is free.
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This product is part of Costco Wholesale's Black Friday deal/price
Reduced price of $35 Off or 28% Overall Savings; previously listed for $124.99
Limit of 3 per member
Offer valid through November 25, 2022 or while promotional price/supplies last
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Seagate One Touch Portable Hard Drive 5TB-Space Grey
Store and access photos and files on the go with Seagate One Touch. Featuring quick plug-and-play USB 3.0 connectivity to Windows or Mac, consolidate files with a single click or schedule automatic daily, weekly, or monthly backups. Plus edit, manage, and share photos with one-year complimentary subscription to Mylio Create and a four-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan.
From someone with fairly extensive experience with these drives:
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.
Looks here could easily have meant the specs on paper look nice or that the deal itself looked nice.
Should put "Costco" in title subby.
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I've had a 2tb running for like 5 years strong, I should upgrade but I'm thinking SSD next.
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!
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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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When it comes to data storage... looks aren't the first thing you look for in a product.
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Same here
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!