forum threadRumzie posted Nov 10, 2025 11:12 PM
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forum threadRumzie posted Nov 10, 2025 11:12 PM
WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA HDD - 24TB (WD242KRYZ) (6Yr Warranty) $450
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There is currently high demand for enterprise level drives that can run 27x7 for 5-10 years, for the purposes of AI training (to backup the entire Internet), or for cloud providers like Amazon AWS that have lots of data to store. This is resulting in high quality drives being fairly expensive.
While manufacturing those drives, some drives have minor defects which the manufacturer thinks will cause the drive to fail in less than 5 years of 24x7 usage. So they package those drives as consumer backup drives that only get used occasionally and then turn off. Those consumer drives get sold for about half the price of enterprise drives. As long as you don't run a consumer drive 24x7, it should still last you for years.
Others (like myself) are running these drives 24/7 and will be reading/writing lots of data, so having a more reliable and longer lasting drive is worth the price difference.
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