expiredMinexus posted Jan 19, 2025 02:50 PM
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expiredMinexus posted Jan 19, 2025 02:50 PM
20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
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Anyway, that's why using a strong sense of filtration and due diligence helps with these comments. Once in a while you get a good nugget of info/wisdom which makes it worth the effort if you actually need said item.
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I agree... and when you're dealing with the enterprise level stuff... the differences are less pronounced because the makers are serving enterprise clients that are buying up the stock and always seeking bigger capacity drives for smaller DC footprints and power usage. I personally believe and I would be happy to change my mind if I saw definitive proof, but I personally believe these >14 TB external hard drives are factory seconds off of the enterprise lines and are pushed to consumers because something minor may have failed the QC.
Even if some SDer came in and bought 20 of these drives.. that's nothing compared to enterprise customers. I mean, you can buy petabyte SSD SANs if you want... yeah, they cost six-digits, but that's what some enterprises need.
Enterprises are what drive a lot of tech forward now... not us consumers.
brand new in sealed box. ranging from 512 gig. 1tb to 4tb or 8tb. some internal..some external
Seagate relies upon enterprise sales... not SDers and general consumers looking for external hard drives at Amazon/BB/Costco/etc.
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I currently manage hundreds of TB of data in a data center that runs exclusively on Seagate EXOS SAS drives. In five years of continuous writes, we've had ZERO drive failures. Clearly EXOS drives aren't terrible based on real-world experience.
I've managed literally thousands of spindles over my IT career - SATA, SAS, FC, you name it. Everything from NetApp Filers, 3PAR, EMC VNX to HP Nimble and Dell Compellent. Guess which brands I've seen fail?
All of them.
Compare this experience with your average consumer fanboy that may have used two dozen drives in his whole life telling you Seagate EXOS is garbage. Bring some real data before you trash something with a dataset of n=5.
For the record, I also manage a fleet of Synology NASes at client locations with over 200 drives spinning in production for years at a time, while heavily write biased (hourly backups, 24x7x365). ALL are WD Reds, which are also just fine.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2PZW...20INT
And if you don't have a modern OS, use something like VeraCrypt or Cryptomator to encrypt the data.
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