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They're still great deals. You're getting the remaining useful life on a drive made to run for a long time at high data rates. And, you can buy double the disks vs new ones, so you can setup your backup even easier.
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TLDR; avoid Seagate 12tb and 14tb. 16tb drives so far look very good (X18). No published data yet on X24.
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In the interest of simplifying that set up, what would be the most practical and effective way of buying 4 of these drives to have 32TB of storage?
Theoretically you might be able to copy the data, add the new copies to the same Plex Library, and rescan. Plex should add the new location as extra copies, then once it has finished scanning, you remove the old location from the library. With any luck Plex will maintain all the custom information and change where it pulls the stream from. You may have to empty the trash in Plex to get rid of the missing media notification. NOTE: I haven't tried this, I'm just guessing that this should work.
Theoretically you might be able to copy the data, add the new copies to the same Plex Library, and rescan. Plex should add the new location as extra copies, then once it has finished scanning, you remove the old location from the library. With any luck Plex will maintain all the custom information and change where it pulls the stream from. You may have to empty the trash in Plex to get rid of the missing media notification. NOTE: I haven't tried this, I'm just guessing that this should work.
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In the interest of simplifying that set up, what would be the most practical and effective way of buying 4 of these drives to have 32TB of storage?
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The X24 16TB is either a 6D or a 7D according to the Product Manual you will find on Seagate's website. These might have a systemic issue which was fixed during the refurbishment. It might just be a firmware update removing advanced features needed for cloud service providers which may not have worked correctly (yes, they often have specific tailored firmware).
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New models may have manufacturing issues and fail final testing at the factory
Infant mortality is much higher than mid term reliability
They might actually be honest and not sell finished goods that fail final test and get repaired as new.
This is a very small percentage of their total drive manufacturing and to the lay person may seem like a large quantity.
Here are some guess about these refurbished drive sourced from the manufacturer.
The 24TB drive has 10 internal disk with 20 heads.
The 20TB drive has 9 internal disk with 18 heads.
The 16TB drive has 8 or 7 internal disk with 15 or 14 heads.
In production testing, if the 24TB has a defective 1 of the 10 disk platters, the firmware could be modified to reconfigure it as a 20 TB. If the defect is on 2 disk platters, it could become a 16TB refurbished drive.
Note: These are pure speculation, I am just another guy on the internet.
Poster's sentence above in quotes. Why would a person use these crappy seagate drives for data they DON'T WANT TO LOSE. Then poster goes on to list data that is easily replaceable after quoted sentence above.
Did you get your education in a liberal school system where they just pass you to next grade if you are a failure?
Here are some guess about these refurbished drive sourced from the manufacturer.
The 24TB drive has 10 internal disk with 20 heads.
The 20TB drive has 9 internal disk with 18 heads.
The 16TB drive has 8 or 7 internal disk with 15 or 14 heads.
In production testing, if the 24TB has a defective 1 of the 10 disk platters, the firmware could be modified to reconfigure it as a 20 TB. If the defect is on 2 disk platters, it could become a 16TB refurbished drive.
Note: These are pure speculation, I am just another guy on the internet.
From a refurbishment labor perspective that could make a lot of sense.
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Poster's sentence above in quotes. Why would a person use these crappy seagate drives for data they DON'T WANT TO LOSE. Then poster goes on to list data that is easily replaceable after quoted sentence above.
Did you get your education in a liberal school system where they just pass you to next grade if you are a failure?
There is nothing wrong with refurbished drives, especially these ones that are nearly new, and haven't even been on the market for very long. There is plenty of statistical manufacturing data that shows that a refurbished drive (that is new and only suffered from infant mortality) is MORE reliable than one right off the manufacturing line. That's one of the main reason manufacturers of high reliability systems have burn in tests: to ferret out early failures and IMPROVE reliability of the end products delivered to customers.
And seriously what are you doing in a refurb thread if you just want to crap on it. You aren't helping, you clearly aren't learning, and you are definitely not buying one. GO AWAY.
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