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20TB Seagate Exos X20 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive

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$290

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Newegg Inc. via Walmart has 20TB Seagate Exos X20 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (ST20000NM007D) on sale for $289.89. Shipping is free.

Server Parts Deals also has 20TB Seagate Exos X20 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (ST20000NM007D) on sale for $289.89. Shipping is free.

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About the Product
  • 20TB Capacity
  • 7200 RPM Spindle Speed
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • 6.0/3.0 Interface Access Speed (Gb/s)
  • 168/550 Random Read/Write 4K QD 16
Warranty
  • Includes a 5-year manufacturer warranty with purchase

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This is $10 lower than the previous +40 Frontpage Deal from earlier this month.
    • This is a 3.5" bare drive as part of Seagate Enterprise HDD; highest rack-space efficiency protected by Seagate Secure Exos X20
    • Product is great for cloud data centers/hyperscale applications, high capacity RAID storage or centralized surveillance or distributed file system.
    • Refer to the forum thread for discussion of this deal.

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Written by tDames | Staff
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Newegg Inc. via Walmart has 20TB Seagate Exos X20 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (ST20000NM007D) on sale for $289.89. Shipping is free.

Server Parts Deals also has 20TB Seagate Exos X20 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (ST20000NM007D) on sale for $289.89. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Hunter tDames for finding this deal

Note, product is brand new and ensure you have that option selected.

About the Product
  • 20TB Capacity
  • 7200 RPM Spindle Speed
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • 6.0/3.0 Interface Access Speed (Gb/s)
  • 168/550 Random Read/Write 4K QD 16
Warranty
  • Includes a 5-year manufacturer warranty with purchase

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This is $10 lower than the previous +40 Frontpage Deal from earlier this month.
    • This is a 3.5" bare drive as part of Seagate Enterprise HDD; highest rack-space efficiency protected by Seagate Secure Exos X20
    • Product is great for cloud data centers/hyperscale applications, high capacity RAID storage or centralized surveillance or distributed file system.
    • Refer to the forum thread for discussion of this deal.

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RancidRat
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Mfr recertified versions of this 20 TB model are $229.99

https://serverpartdeals.com/produ...hard-drive
racker15
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This drive was launched in Dec 2021 so any "used" drives would probably be no older than ~1 year. Surprising how fast these came to the "used" market
afrugalfather
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Sounds like you are just not sure what to do. You missed one other individual post to reply to though, maybe that one will have the answer.

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masotime
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Just a heads up for more informed decisions - https://www.tomshardware.com/news...of-failure. I've had bad experience with Seagate anecdotally, and it seems it might not be just anecdotal.

Also https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba...-for-2022/

Seagate average around 2% failure rates compared to < 1% for other brands is not a good look
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If you are storing data on drives with redundancy (which you SHOULD) and rebuilding / swapping drives are easy then you should focus on "$ per TB years"

Let's say a "perfect" drive lasts 10 years ("0% AFR")
A 2% AFR rate would be "expected" to last 2 years less (10 years x 2% = 20% of 10 years) at worst.

So you should pay no more than 20% extra for a "the perfect 0% AFR drive" versus 2% AFR drive

IMHO buy the Mfg. Refurbished 20TB Seagate - IF YOU HAVE EASY REDUNDANCY
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masotime
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Quote from azulon12 :
I am not really sure what to do. The WD Red Pro 20tb has 300TB workload per year. Vs 550 per year with these drives. I don't know what 20 TB drive to buy. I get a manufacturer warranty with this plus credit card warranty.
IMO the higher failure rates are more concerning than any warranty. It doesn't matter how long the warranty is if you lose valuable data - sure you'll get a replacement, but you might not be able to replace the data once it's lost.

It's not so bad if you have redundancy like BackBlaze does though - so I guess it would be less of a concern if you have multiple copies of the data across several drives.
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afrugalfather
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Quote from azulon12 :
I am not really sure what to do. The WD Red Pro 20tb has 300TB workload per year. Vs 550 per year with these drives. I don't know what 20 TB drive to buy. I get a manufacturer warranty with this plus credit card warranty.
Sounds like you are just not sure what to do. You missed one other individual post to reply to though, maybe that one will have the answer.
Last edited by afrugalfather March 28, 2023 at 07:45 AM.
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Quote from masotime :
Just a heads up for more informed decisions - https://www.tomshardware.com/news...of-failure. I've had bad experience with Seagate anecdotally, and it seems it might not be just anecdotal.

Also https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba...-for-2022/

Seagate average around 2% failure rates compared to < 1% for other brands is not a good look
aren't many of the seagate failed drives from non-exos and non-ironwolf or whatever enterprise-equivalent drives? I've had Seagate failures in the past too that have put a bad taste in my mouth, but my understanding is that they were from drives that don't include the above two mentioned product lines. the old school backblaze data was done using regular Seagate drives iirc, and I have to agree that those drives are a load of hot trash. think it was the barracuda line? I've heard better things about the enterprise-level drives though 🤷 someone jump in to correct if you have experience otherwise
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burticus
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Nice size and price, but Seagate.... nope.

The SANs we have at work are loaded with Seagate drives.... the field tech comes out on a regular basis replacing dead ones. On a big SAN it's not a huge deal, you have redundancy. At home in a 1 off or small NAS, it is more of an issue. 20tb is a lot to lose in one shot.
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mnagali
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Quote from azulon12 :
I am not really sure what to do. The WD Red Pro 20tb has 300TB workload per year. Vs 550 per year with these drives. I don't know what 20 TB drive to buy. I get a manufacturer warranty with this plus credit card warranty.
Have you ever tried getting a replacement or refund via credit card extended warranty for electronics?? for minor electronics I've never had any luck, because they've always required an up front evaluation ($$) from a tech shop of some sort certifying that the device is indeed broken and needs fixing or replacement. For an expensive TV sure I'd go thru that trouble.. but for a security camera or zwave switches? too much effort
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euuser353654
Mar 28, 2023
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I bought 2 of these, 1 from Amazon (first one failed, DOA, clicking) replacement was fine, paid $349 then ordered a 2nd from ServerPartsDeals which was SN01 firmware and 4.5 years worth of warranty vs. the Amazon SN03 firmware and 5+ years according to serial number check on Seagate. Not sure there is a tremendous amount of difference but the SN01 said it's not eligible to upgrade to SN03.
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Jerky_san
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Quote from mnagali :
Have you ever tried getting a replacement or refund via credit card extended warranty for electronics?? for minor electronics I've never had any luck, because they've always required an up front evaluation ($$) from a tech shop of some sort certifying that the device is indeed broken and needs fixing or replacement. For an expensive TV sure I'd go thru that trouble.. but for a security camera or zwave switches? too much effort
I did once from Citi. They wanted the drive though before they would pay. I told them it had PPI and socials unencrypted on it before it failed and didn't feel comfortable handing it over. They gave me a one time exception.

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mnagali
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Quote from Jerky_san :
I did once from Citi. They wanted the drive though before they would pay. I told them it had PPI and socials unencrypted on it before it failed and didn't feel comfortable handing it over. They gave me a one time exception.
When I've done in-warranty replacements with WD and Samsung in the past they've always needed the drive shipped to them for inspection, before I would get my replacement .

Maybe I should try filing a claim when with Chase when my drives fall out of manufacturers warranty and see if they'll refund me a drive without requiring a return. 😎

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