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frontpageEragorn | Staff posted Nov 14, 2025 07:21 PM
24TB Seagate BarraCuda 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal SATA Bare Hard Drive
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These are relatively newer offer (in the last year or so), I haven't heard of any widespread issues w/ them (I have two) but ask me again in 5 years.
So for me I use unraid and the disks spinning maybe 2-3 hours a day (i write to SSD first), so I am totally unconcerned and most people will not hit the duty cycle for home usage so unless you are say ingesting 300GB or more per DAY onto these drives every day you should be good and even so the price is right, so just have parity/RAID. I just had a shucked 8TB Seagate turn 9 years old (not enterprise) and it is still kicking.
What kills hard drives is heat. So invest in good fan/circulation and try to keep them at 30-35c or less. Yes they can go to 50c but that is the edge, and heat kills mechanical drives. Ignore at your peril.
The 2 year warranty sorta sucks, you can get used enterprise drives w/ 5 year, but they are already 5 years old.
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These are relatively newer offer (in the last year or so), I haven't heard of any widespread issues w/ them (I have two) but ask me again in 5 years.
So for me I use unraid and the disks spinning maybe 2-3 hours a day (i write to SSD first), so I am totally unconcerned and most people will not hit the duty cycle for home usage so unless you are say ingesting 300GB or more per DAY onto these drives every day you should be good and even so the price is right, so just have parity/RAID. I just had a shucked 8TB Seagate turn 9 years old (not enterprise) and it is still kicking.
What kills hard drives is heat. So invest in good fan/circulation and try to keep them at 30-35c or less. Yes they can go to 50c but that is the edge, and heat kills mechanical drives. Ignore at your peril.
The 2 year warranty sorta sucks, you can get used enterprise drives w/ 5 year, but they are already 5 years old.
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