Update: This popular deal is still available
Western Digital has
18TB Western Digital WD Red Pro 3.5" 7200 RPM NAS Internal Hard Drive (WD181KFGX) on sale
2 for $549.98.
Shipping is free.
Note: Valid only for 18TB (WD181KFGX), select from the dropdown menu. Must order 2 to get deal price, otherwise a single drive is $349.99.
Thanks to Community Member
RyanR1902 for finding this deal.
Features:
- Transfer Rate: up to 272MB/s
- Designed with CMR technology for medium or large-sized businesses in RAID-optimized NAS systems with up to 24 bays. Perfect for archiving, sharing and handling high-intensity workloads.
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Hopefully all the people "just go to serverpartdeal and blah blah..." dont chime in.
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Hopefully all the people "just go to serverpartdeal and blah blah..." dont chime in.
About a decade or so ago, I had two or three seagate drives go bad on me (two + a warranty replacement) so I've been specifically looking at WD
What's wrong with serverpartdeal? Are they unreliable? I do recall to beware of certain types of server drives that are managed by special controllers thus won't work in PCs. I think it was "SMR"?
About a decade or so ago, I had two or three seagate drives go bad on me (two + a warranty replacement) so I've been specifically looking at WD
What's wrong with serverpartdeal? Are they unreliable? I do recall to beware of certain types of server drives that are managed by special controllers thus won't work in PCs. I think it was "SMR"?
About a decade or so ago, I had two or three seagate drives go bad on me (two + a warranty replacement) so I've been specifically looking at WD
What's wrong with serverpartdeal? Are they unreliable? I do recall to beware of certain types of server drives that are managed by special controllers thus won't work in PCs. I think it was "SMR"?
Serverpartdeal......used/refurb drives. Some people go through and get their panties in a bunch about new vs used...it's way too much of a pain to deal with a dead drive, not adding extra chance of failure into my server.
If your budget will only allow for used/refurb drives then just go with what you can do.
Serverpartdeal......used/refurb drives. Some people go through and get their panties in a bunch about new vs used...it's way too much of a pain to deal with a dead drive, not adding extra chance of failure into my server.
If your budget will only allow for used/refurb drives then just go with what you can do.
On the other hand, this new drive I'm shopping for will be used as an online backup drive for my plex storage so it isnt the end of the world if it dies (other than the money). I currently have a pair of 10TB, one as backup. Now I'm out of space.
Good to know I didn't really miss out on that deal I suppose
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On the other hand, this new drive I'm shopping for will be used as an online backup drive for my plex storage so it isnt the end of the world if it dies (other than the money). I currently have a pair of 10TB, one as backup. Now I'm out of space.
Good to know I didn't really miss out on that deal I suppose
Though at the end of the day you're weighing your budget vs risk tolerance in buying used vs new.
Server part deals last straw was when they sold me a new drive that had been sitting on a shelf for almost 4 years yet claiming 5 year warranty. Then selling me a drive claimed to have warranty only for them to change the listing shortly after they shipped and when I found out the drive's SN was designated OEM, without one. They did too many shady things and lost my business.
Buying new directly from WD guarantees you will have the most ideal experience of the given drive model and size. Plus you're basically guaranteed they will package the drives correctly and appropriately for shipping. An important reason why I would never buy any HDD regardless of condition from Amazon if it's fulfilled by them. They are easily the worst company at packaging that I've dealt with, and in general, not just drives.
About a decade or so ago, I had two or three seagate drives go bad on me (two + a warranty replacement) so I've been specifically looking at WD
What's wrong with serverpartdeal? Are they unreliable? I do recall to beware of certain types of server drives that are managed by special controllers thus won't work in PCs. I think it was "SMR"?
Errors that the drive logs it will typically remap those sectors. Silent bit corruption happens rarely on drives. I saw once where a solderball on an asic for a fibre channel storage array was causing multi-bit flips. Another one was raid controller firmware was corrupting data on a san volume somehow. One of the latest weird ones was writing data to a san volume would work fine unless it was sent to the server over the network via nfs then written to the san drive via a fc hba. Writing it directly to the drive didnt cause the issue. I stopped paying attention to that one when redhat started rewriting code. I think they addressed it with some scatter gather fix but they never explained why it would just do it with nfs. Ohh something else i did was you can build a synology VM. I was doing it in esx and i had a bunch of hard drives I had to manually make RDM disks then map them to the synology vm and let it do its software raid thing. That way I could put them in a synology array and it would boot up. Doing snapshots in vmware then screwing around with the bits and/or learning how to mess with the raid set without risking blowing up data was fun too. Im done, cheers.
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered
_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
Error 2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1712 hours (71 days + 8 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
- _
84 43 00 00 00
00
00 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC
Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
61 40
58
40 ae 7c 40 08
60 20
78
78
bb
7c 40 08
61 80
70
b8
7c
40
08
61 00 68
40
ad
7c 40 08
61 40 60 80 b3
7c 40 08
5d+15:27:51.276
5d+15:27:51.274
5d+15:27:51.274
5d+15:27:51.274
5d+15:27:51.274
WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
READ FPDMA QUEUED
WRITE FDMA QUEUED WRITE FPDMA QUEUED WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1701 hours (70 days + 21 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 43 00 00 00 00 00 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC
Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-—
- -
61 40 a0
61 80
98
61 40
90
61 40
88
61 40
80
40
80
40
00
33
2f
2a
25
25
35
40
08
35
40
08
35 40
08
35
40 08
35 40 08
5d+04:06:03.436
WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
5d+04:06:03.355
WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
5d+04:06:03.355
WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
5d+04:06:03.353
WRITE FDMA QUEUED
5d+04:06:03.347 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Anyone know the sweet spot for $$/TB?
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