Spotted this while searching for hard drives. I've been looking at adding some extra storage for photo editing / astrophotography, and this was a decent price. I'll connect it to my Pi server for basic storage over the network, but I'm not trying to go deep into the NAS server. I bought an enclosure htinking I would buy a standalone drive, but at this price, I can't pass for now. I don't need the 24TB ones, so this was the best value for my current needs. I'm sure other Slickdealers can inform me on quality of the internals and if I should proceed with shucking.
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https://www.bestbuy.com/site/seag...Id=6463050
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A 14tb external wd drive is currently $289.
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I shucked these before and I got EXOS.
https://slickdeals.net/f/18234208-expansion-desktop-hard-drive-22tb-stkp22000400-239-99
But there are reports the newer ones are Barracudas, not Exos, which makes me a sad panda.
Decided to put in NAS server with other drive. Same size.
Just for video back up and other files. Took out out the case.
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These drives were the ones that went down to $100 on clearance at Costco last year. Now Costco doesn't sell any external hard drives. At that time, they had exos Mach 2 dual actuator drives in them.
Seagate external drives only have a 1yr warranty. WD does 2 or 3 depending on whether it's an elements or my book. The Seagate specs don't say anything about power on hours or work load. So you could use it as heavily a you want in the enclosure and still claim the warranty if it fails in the first year
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