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Most likely. They are not marketed as NAS drives with a limited duty cycle of 120 TB/year where an enterprise exos for instance is around 500TB/year and has 24/7 duty but HDD are not like SSD where there is wear on the platters for writing/reading its perhaps the mechanical components are not quite as good or they are binned. They won't automatically die if you exceed the duty cycle. Considering that NAS drives are 2x or more cost, even if you buy 2 and RAID them you are still better off (IMHO).
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.
Most likely. They are not marketed as NAS drives with a limited duty cycle of 120 TB/year where an enterprise exos for instance is around 500TB/year and has 24/7 duty but HDD are not like SSD where there is wear on the platters for writing/reading its perhaps the mechanical components are not quite as good or they are binned. They won't automatically die if you exceed the duty cycle. Considering that NAS drives are 2x or more cost, even if you buy 2 and RAID them you are still better off (IMHO).
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.
I just bought 2 of these 2 days ago! Anyone think Newegg would honor a price adjustment?
They will. I purchased a 9070 XT from NewEgg back in June and a price change occurred w/in a 2-3 week of purchase where it came down by $30. I filled out the price match form on their website and was contacted by someone from their team a few days later and they offered to refund the difference on a gift card, but declined and requested that they refund the difference to my original form of payment in which they obliged.
Hm. For the price and the fact that its new makes it interesting for sure. $10 a TB is a good price. Better Enterprise drives come up for cheap but those are used or from unreputable sellers. Not sure how good these new larger drives are though. Even for higher cost i'd prefer something like the wd red drives though. Those are rated for 24/7 use and 300 TB a year I believe. This one is 8 hours a day.
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Hm. For the price and the fact that its new makes it interesting for sure. $10 a TB is a good price. Better Enterprise drives come up for cheap but those are used or from unreputable sellers. Not sure how good these new larger drives are though. Even for higher cost i'd prefer something like the wd red drives though. Those are rated for 24/7 use and 300 TB a year I believe. This one is 8 hours a day.
The WD Red Pro is literally twice the price ($480), but it is rated for 24/7 550TB/year.. People will have to decide how much those numbers on paper are worth to them.
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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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