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SMR Seagate Barracuda 8TB 5400 RPM Internal SATA Hard Drive $110

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This is on sale for $110 or 13.75 per TB. It's smr but I bought one for storage. Cheapest price per TB for a new, brand name drive I could find

also available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H289S7C

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/seag...Id=6425021
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DreamerbyDesign
01-28-2024 at 12:48 PM.
01-28-2024 at 12:48 PM.
For archival storage aka rarely accessed storage, SMR is fine. For storage that is actively changed, spend a few more dollars and get a CMR drive. Your data will thank you. If it's data that doesnt mean much or is replaceable, then this would be fine.
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TenderBook4607
01-28-2024 at 01:19 PM.
01-28-2024 at 01:19 PM.
Add $20 you can get WD80EAAZ (CMR, 8TB, 5640RPM, 256MB Cache).
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01-29-2024 at 04:16 AM.
01-29-2024 at 04:16 AM.
No no no. Bad bad bad. Do not buy SMR. It is only appropriate for very limited use cases. If you're the type of person who is reading this comment then you do not have that workload.

If you're the type who already knows that SMR fits their use case then you're not reading this comment.

And I haven't even mentioned Seagate...
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01-29-2024 at 09:59 AM.
01-29-2024 at 09:59 AM.
Doesn't really matter if it is a CMR or SMR, as long as you have good backups with a 3-2-1 plan, you are good. This price is higher than $6-$7 per TB brand new drives on eBay with 3-5 yrs warranty. Have been using a few of these cheapos on a TrueNAS setup running 24x7, no issues for last 7 yrs and not a single one has failed.
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01-29-2024 at 10:15 AM.
01-29-2024 at 10:15 AM.
Quote from Oil_Burner :
Doesn't really matter if it is a CMR or SMR, as long as you have good backups with a 3-2-1 plan, you are good. This price is higher than $6-$7 per TB brand new drives on eBay with 3-5 yrs warranty. Have been using a few of these cheapos on a TrueNAS setup running 24x7, no issues for last 7 yrs and not a single one has failed.

While I do agree having a 3-2-1 backup strategy is important I also believe in trying to get the most reliability for my money. That's where I see the value. I'd take an enterprise drive refurb before I'd buy this smr drive for data, backed up or not. I don't think informed buyers choose smr except for maybe just archiving.
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01-29-2024 at 12:13 PM.
01-29-2024 at 12:13 PM.
Quote from DreamerbyDesign :
While I do agree having a 3-2-1 backup strategy is important I also believe in trying to get the most reliability for my money. That's where I see the value. I'd take an enterprise drive refurb before I'd buy this smr drive for data, backed up or not. I don't think informed buyers choose smr except for maybe just archiving.
Totally agree - SMR drives are OK for day-to-day use and for light loads. Absolutely NOT for gaming, video editing, rendering or other heavy loads. Again, HDD manufacturers have been touting large terabyte HDDs, in which cases CMR tech, although conventional, is not cost effective. At the end of the day, if you use SMR or CMR drives for NAS, you're limited to the most common 1Gb ethernet speed, which gives you max 120MB of data in/out - And hence my "Doesn't matter......"
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01-29-2024 at 07:41 PM.
01-29-2024 at 07:41 PM.
Quote from TenderBook4607 :
Add $20 you can get WD80EAAZ (CMR, 8TB, 5640RPM, 256MB Cache).
This is only $109.00 on the Amazon
http://amazon.com/Western-Digital...GQG5Y?th=1
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GreenGuide766
02-11-2024 at 10:23 AM.
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Waiting for 800tb ssd
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