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Western Digital 8TB WD Blue PC Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD80EAAZ $137

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Western Digital 8TB WD Blue PC Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD80EAAZ

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takenforgranite

Today 01:18 AM

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takenforgraniteToday 01:18 AM

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Am I thinking of older tech or is 5640 RPM astoundingly slow?

HFF

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HFFToday 01:29 AM

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Quote from takenforgranite

Am I thinking of older tech or is 5640 RPM astoundingly slow?

Def on the slow side but for 8tb it's okay

spochuck

Today 01:32 AM

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spochuckToday 01:32 AM

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Quote from takenforgranite

Am I thinking of older tech or is 5640 RPM astoundingly slow?

It's not an SSD or NVME M.2 drive. Older 3.5" -- good for storage. Functional for PLEX server, but not ideal.

robsnyder22

Today 01:32 AM

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robsnyder22Today 01:32 AM

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Would be good for backups, ect, but of course a used enterprise drive is supposed to be better.

blake131

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blake131Today 01:50 AM

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Quote from takenforgranite

Am I thinking of older tech or is 5640 RPM astoundingly slow?

It is but for storage purposes this is fine. Definitely not boot OS drive. The 7200 rpm drives are a lot louder even if they are a little faster.

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gjsneptune

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gjsneptuneToday 03:00 AM

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Quote from takenforgranite

Am I thinking of older tech or is 5640 RPM astoundingly slow?

It's a common speed range for storage drives. Faster drives are usually 7200 at least.

EagerCaribou7814

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EagerCaribou7814Today 03:15 AM

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It's $161 now. $20/tb is insane. Get used enterprise drives. You can get them for less than $10/tb usually and they're going to be superior so long as smart data is looking good.

TalentedGalley1721

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TalentedGalley1721Today 03:18 AM

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Good for a NAS? Or wait for another deal?

bieberwhole69

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bieberwhole69Today 03:19 AM

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meh.. i get used hdd off ebay for $6/TB~ . if the data is important.. you're backing it up anyways.. been running plex server off these used ebay HDD for years w/o issues. and they're on 24/7

lupi

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lupiToday 03:26 AM

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The 10tb and 12tb are boosted to 7200rpm. No idea what that means for sound though.

FabulousBird8654

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FabulousBird8654Today 03:27 AM

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Imagine 8TB of data lost due to HDD failure

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