expiredtDames | Staff posted Oct 24, 2023 02:53 PM
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expiredtDames | Staff posted Oct 24, 2023 02:53 PM
18TB Dell Exos X18 SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (Refurbished)
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Also note that these are manufactured by Seagate.
Doubt anybody here is really discussing the deal because they want to put a 18TB game archive drive in their PC, though. We build storage systems for other reasons:
Juggling lots of different disks becomes a PITA. It's more convenient to set up a storage pool where you don't necessarily have to care about which drive holds the data. You can just worry about the pool as an entity itself.
There are downsides to "easy" cloud storage, like privacy concerns, keeping track of data in many different places, unknown how well your cloud storage providers back up your data, and cost.
If you had a backup in place, you'd probably be down for a really long time during the recovery process. For some people that's not acceptable.
Also, at some point higher density storage starts demanding a premium. So if you want to keep costs down and you have physical space, smaller drives might be a better solution. If you work in IT, you can often get hard drives for free when they get cycled out of production. Though relatively few of us work in places where 18TB drives are too small or too old for the business case.
There's also a skills component to consider. If you work in IT and want to upskill, you need a home lab to learn and practice with. Setting up and maintaining large storage systems is a good skill to have. And those systems can also be the foundation for other things like virtualization, containerization, new operating systems, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, etc.
Those are most of the reasons you see folks here seeking out cheap, large drives. Probably 99% of households don't have a need for 18TB. If you're not in tech you really only accumulate that much if you are hording media files or you work in some kind of media production.
You might also be a solopreneur, I suppose. I have two laptops I consider critical in my house. I can roll back to the previous 7 days, I've got 3 weekly snapshopts beyond that, and 3 monthly snapshots further back. That backup strategy uses about 1TB per machine.
For all of these use cases, you're building storage on multiple drives. We can see a big cost savings by buying refurb and we can help mitigate the "risk" of used drives with these systems.
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Also note that these are manufactured by Seagate.
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I kid, but Seagate's reputation is not very good (although admittedly, the selection of hard drive manufacturers these days is pretty small).
But it was Refurbished.
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But it was Refurbished.
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like i expect if a 20tb Drive costs $300 new
the refurbished one needs to be like $40 before i would consider it
Anecdotally, I have primarily used WD drives for the last 10 years or so, all purchased new, and so far, I have had 4 disc failures all WD (2 blue, 1 green, 1 black). 1 Seagate and 1 Hitachi I also owned during this period are still going strong.
EDIT: btw, this disc has been the same price and has been in stock for over a month, however this is seller refurb and dell branded (diff firmware) vs exos x18 they also list which is manuf refurb, but $10 higher.
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