frontpageEragorn | Staff posted Nov 14, 2025 07:21 PM
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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
+ Free S/H$240
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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 appear to be drives that didn't make the cut to be enterprise Exos drives. So, solid design, but maybe have some problems that will lead to a greater probability of failure.
I would expect these to be as reliable as any other non-NAS-specific or non-enterprise drives that you might get. It'll cost less, particularly in reference to the amount of space you get, but you are more likely to have a problem.
Personally, I'm buying some of this model to upgrade my backup NAS, and expect them to be just as reliable as the older enterprise drives that they're replacing.
If you don't want to use archival media, at least setup a redundant array of disks
But, if you try, let us know the results, as there will invariably be others in a similar position
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I guess you need to stop dropping the Seagate drives down the stairs or something
https://slickdeals.net/f/18814000-newegg-starts-nov-20-seagate-expansion-26tb-250?p=180239311#post18...
$220ish if u have a MicroCenter on another post but I dont.
If you only need to deal with one drive, it's probably worth the effort
Newegg is getting these as bare drives and has to repackage them, so I suspect a lot of the drives are getting damaged in the process of packing and shipping
Keep in mind that these DOAs, as well as the normal early-life failures, are far more likely to get a review on the seller website than anything more than six months in -- good or bad
Just to note, the Exos version of this drive (ST22000NM000C) also has the same Power-On Hours per Year at 2400 [seagate.com]. So basically wouldn't read that much into that particular metric as an indicator of the drive's quality.
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