Newegg has
26TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive (STKP26000400) on sale for
$259.99.
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About this product:
- Easy-to-use desktop hard driveāsimply plug in the power adapter and USB cable
- USB 3.0 allows fast file transfers for efficient data management
- Drag-and-drop file saving right out of the box
- Automatic recognition of Windows and Mac computers for simple setup (Reformatting required for use with Time Machine)
- Enjoy peace of mind with the included limited warranty and Rescue Data Recovery Services
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Up until Linus ruined everyone's good time by telling every jerkoff about serverpartdeals (I will never forgive him for this) it has gotten much more expensive to have such a beefy system but we primarily still buy refurb drives. We lose about 1 drive a year at home. We use a mix of anything that is up-to-spec including Seagate at home. There is a measurable brand difference in quality for Enterprise but is the percentage point increase in possible failure worth getting a drive for 40% cheaper than the competition? Backing up data is a numbers game so absolutely not but your call. Your money - your data.
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I bought this back in July/August for about $235 direct from Seagate. Primarily due to skyrocketing energy costs, I'm replacing several 4 and 8TB drives with a single one of these. I did not shuck and have left it in the included enclosure. So far so good, although I have had a single drive disconnect wherein the drive suddenly disconnected (the drive letter in Windows disappeared) and I had to power cycle the enclosure to make it come back. That was slightly unnerving, but I wrote a PowerShell script to test the drive connectivity periodically and automatically power cycle it (via my home automation system) if necessary.
Before I get the lecture... yes, I have 3 copies of all the important stuff, including one copy offsite. No, nothing on this drive is "mission critical", nor is the server it is attached to.
I HOPE you learned your lesson, have 3-2-1 method of backup, ... so if one goes south, you have 2 more backups, ... and I'm sure you know that, because your painful lesson happened 10 years ago.
Now, if you do have backups of your stuff, it is easier to relax a little bit. If one of my drives go SOUTH and I have to trash it, I might be a little bummed out, but I have 2 backups, and make a new 3rd copy.
These Seagates 26TB drives are CRM with HAMR tech (laser), so many of us are just leaving them in the enclosure and just using them as 3rd backup , to put in closet, for long term storage. I bought 2 of them , loaded them up, put about 20-30 hours on each one, and put it in closet.
Now we know more about storage and grades of drives TODAY, which I'm sure you know, ... these Seagate CRM with HAMR are new tech drives being tested by seagate, I personally would not put them in NAS/DAS/PC for 24/7 use. I use WD Enterprise drives for NAS/DAS. Everybody has war stories about hard drive crashes, but with 3-2-1 backup ... we don't freak out as much as 10 years ago.
Segate failed me twice and I lost all my av collections 10 years ago. After that I jumped to WD, not a single problem ever since then.
sorry for your lost, that was 10 years ago. And it probably gets you down when you remember the pain of that.
I HOPE you learned your lesson, have 3-2-1 method of backup, ... so if one goes south, you have 2 more backups, ... and I'm sure you know that, because your painful lesson happened 10 years ago.
Now, if you do have backups of your stuff, it is easier to relax a little bit. If one of my drives go SOUTH and I have to trash it, I might be a little bummed out, but I have 2 backups, and make a new 3rd copy.
These Seagates 26TB drives are CRM with HAMR tech (laser), so many of us are just leaving them in the enclosure and just using them as 3rd backup , to put in closet, for long term storage. I bought 2 of them , loaded them up, put about 20-30 hours on each one, and put it in closet.
Now we know more about storage and grades of drives TODAY, which I'm sure you know, ... these Seagate CRM with HAMR are new tech drives being tested by seagate, I personally would not put them in NAS/DAS/PC for 24/7 use. I use WD Enterprise drives for NAS/DAS. Everybody has war stories about hard drive crashes, but with 3-2-1 backup ... we don't freak out as much as 10 years ago.
(joking aside...) now the seagate expansion 26TB drive, will have a hard time dieing ... if I only use it to load them with my 3rd backup and put the drive in closet, in cool/dark place to sleep for long periods of time. I have 20-30 hours on both mine.
I'm sure we agree, it helps if we have 3-2-1 backup plan, so if one drive bites the dust, we have 2 other backups.
Pretty much all of my mech drives, in both NAS/DAS are turned off 99 percent of the time (to save wear and tear on the drives). And turn them on to backup/transfer stuff I plan to use in the next month onto 4TB NVMe or 4TB SSD's. I am at peace with doing it this way. Having the hard drives on 24/7 year after year many people need for their situation, but I don't need them on 24/7.
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Buy Seagate once and learn your lesson once!
Their enterprise drives have a negligible difference in failure rate after 5 years vs HGST/Western Digital. Basically nothing. A majority of drives we have in my datacenter (manage/design/maintain for a large organization) in our 1.4PB (petabyte) of storage that isn't solid state is Seagate. I've replaced maybe 7 drives in 5 years at our datacenter: 3 were Toshiba at least, and the rest were likely Seagate. Typically 4, 6, and 8TB capacity. It really doesn't matter. If your goal is protecting data I would highly recommend against buying this drive unless you are buying 2 or 3 of them. You should be able to lose at least 1/3rd of your drives without losing any data for your primary storage but ideally 1/2 of them. So more smaller drives in an array or pool is the way to go. My home storage cluster (maintained by my wife) is primarily 4-16TB drives in an unRAID storage pool with 220TB of usable storage. We can only lose 1/3rd of our drives before data loss but we have an off-site on the other side of the world in my mother-in-law's condo for our critical data at about 80TB of usable space but it can lose 2/3rds of its drives. All synchronized up to the minute over tailscale. We also host our own "cloud" sync service like "OneDrive" for keeping the photos and documents on our phones backed live (and because it is a bitch offloading photos from modern phones via USB).
Up until Linus ruined everyone's good time by telling every jerkoff about serverpartdeals (I will never forgive him for this) it has gotten much more expensive to have such a beefy system but we primarily still buy refurb drives. We lose about 1 drive a year at home. We use a mix of anything that is up-to-spec including Seagate at home. There is a measurable brand difference in quality for Enterprise but is the percentage point increase in possible failure worth getting a drive for 40% cheaper than the competition? Backing up data is a numbers game so absolutely not but your call. Your money - your data.
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Is this a solid deal?
It's been $250 a bunch of times before, and even cheaper with a 10% discount but Seagate blocked the discount so $250 might be the best we get this year.. Maybe something cheaper tomorrow durung prime day or BF next month
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