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Model: Seagate Expansion 20TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0, with Rescue Data Recovery Services (STKP20000400)
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I bought two last time this was on sale and shucked them into my nas. I ran a stress test and secure wiped them followed by a extended smart test, both ran it fine without issues. Temps were good for me, lower than my wd reds
That's literally EVERY thread on SD. Most of the content is just two factions trying to prove the other is wrong. If you don't believe me, head on over to the recent lululemon jogger thread, same thing, different product.
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.
I shucked one of these drives into my NAS and it literally just died on the 17, Seagate drives aren't great. Dont take my word, sites like backblaze issues reports on failures. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-s...-test-data
Also After I shucked it I was using the enclosure for an old WD 2tb and out of nowhere the light on the enclosure stop working and the Enclosure also is useless.
My recollection is that these drives were mostly trashed in the previous threads. Shingle Magnetic Recording + Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording.
I don't claim to know anything about the technology, but I bought one on the last deal and it had no issues in all testing I performed including extended test, and transfer rate was around 240mb/s.
Some people were complaining of high temps, but I have a 360mm exhaust fan on my gaming PC its attached to, and just put the drive on top for the transfers and IIRC it was around 36oC in a 72oF room.
I shucked one of these drives into my NAS and it literally just died on the 17, Seagate drives aren't great. Dont take my word, sites like backblaze issues reports on failures. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-s...-test-data
Also After I shucked it I was using the enclosure for an old WD 2tb and out of nowhere the light on the enclosure stop working and the Enclosure also is useless.
I run over 100 enterprise grade WD and seagate hdds
Power on time over 3 years and own mostly seagate enterprise exos 18 to 24TB and all run beautifully . Only one died after it was damaged in transit
Backblaze is a old report where SMR drives 2TB to 8TB were absolute trash this was over decade ago.
Seagate is now making 20TB SMR drives with the barracuda name. These drives are absolute trash.
Big data centers are already buying up seagate HAMR drives 28 to 30TB
This technology was protyped over 20 years ago and was theorized in 1953.
Even WD is moving to HAMR which was invented by seagate or bought the rights to the technology.
Invest your money in the 24TB recently a FP deal at B&H photo is a CMR enterprise grade HDD .
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I don't claim to know anything about the technology, but I bought one on the last deal and it had no issues in all testing I performed including extended test, and transfer rate was around 240mb/s.
Some people were complaining of high temps, but I have a 360mm exhaust fan on my gaming PC its attached to, and just put the drive on top for the transfers and IIRC it was around 36oC in a 72oF room.
You can expect those transfer rates on a brand new / clean SMR drive. The issue is that SMR drives slow down dramatically when you are re-writing data (e.g. random writes on the drive as opposed to sequential writes to unused space on the drive).
SMR drives have their place, and that's for write-once, read-many type applications (such as persistent backups).
You can expect those transfer rates on a brand new / clean SMR drive. The issue is that SMR drives slow down dramatically when you are re-writing data (e.g. random writes on the drive as opposed to sequential writes to unused space on the drive).
SMR drives have their place, and that's for write-once, read-many type applications (such as persistent backups).
I must say you are smarter than the average person
I don't claim to know anything about the technology, but I bought one on the last deal and it had no issues in all testing I performed including extended test, and transfer rate was around 240mb/s.
Some people were complaining of high temps, but I have a 360mm exhaust fan on my gaming PC its attached to, and just put the drive on top for the transfers and IIRC it was around 36oC in a 72oF room.
Don't mix temp units. It is very hard for us to read 😂
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Also After I shucked it I was using the enclosure for an old WD 2tb and out of nowhere the light on the enclosure stop working and the Enclosure also is useless.
Some people were complaining of high temps, but I have a 360mm exhaust fan on my gaming PC its attached to, and just put the drive on top for the transfers and IIRC it was around 36oC in a 72oF room.
Yes it's not enterprise grade specs nor is made to be raid.
If you want CMR the 24TB is a exo x 24 enterprise rated
Also After I shucked it I was using the enclosure for an old WD 2tb and out of nowhere the light on the enclosure stop working and the Enclosure also is useless.
Power on time over 3 years and own mostly seagate enterprise exos 18 to 24TB and all run beautifully . Only one died after it was damaged in transit
Seagate is now making 20TB SMR drives with the barracuda name. These drives are absolute trash.
Big data centers are already buying up seagate HAMR drives 28 to 30TB
This technology was protyped over 20 years ago and was theorized in 1953.
Even WD is moving to HAMR which was invented by seagate or bought the rights to the technology.
Invest your money in the 24TB recently a FP deal at B&H photo is a CMR enterprise grade HDD .
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If you tip one of these over while it's running, it's gonna die instantly.
Some people were complaining of high temps, but I have a 360mm exhaust fan on my gaming PC its attached to, and just put the drive on top for the transfers and IIRC it was around 36oC in a 72oF room.
SMR drives have their place, and that's for write-once, read-many type applications (such as persistent backups).
SMR drives have their place, and that's for write-once, read-many type applications (such as persistent backups).
Some people were complaining of high temps, but I have a 360mm exhaust fan on my gaming PC its attached to, and just put the drive on top for the transfers and IIRC it was around 36oC in a 72oF room.
Come on man you are lost
This is why best buy dropped the 20TB significantly , they are ripping off people
get the 24TB!
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