Newegg: Seagate Exos 16TB Enterprise HDD X16 - $379.99
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How does the op know that 14tb will be on sale tomorrow?
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Running 4 of these in my nas for my plex box (with a mix of other 10tb and 6tb drives as well), they are perfect for it for my use case so far. As far as unraid goes, i pretty sure LTT (linus tech...
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Datacenter HDDs are the best HDDs you can get for any purpose, period. In fact, they're the only class of 3.5in HDD I buy.
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just remember not to put all your eggs in one basket.
back up your data at least 2-3 times and use different forms/ways. i.e. different brand and store off site.
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Backblaze is a datacenter that uses ton of drives and they post statistics on failure rates. The failure rate between datacenter and consumer drives is negligible. Never trust your data to any drive...
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The speed difference isn't negligible
Backblaze doesn't specify workload for each drive model. Higher workloads = higher failure rates
My data is backed up in ZFS, Btrfs, and DrivePool arrays,...
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X16 generation seems decent but x12 drives like to die in a few months. Definitely a dud generation. The problem is Seagate tends to have “dud generations” more often than HGST.
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receipts please?
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10bb same drive was 209 newegg.
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How hot/loud do these run?
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Just run a TOR exit node. The NSA backs up my servers for me for free.
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Link?
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Any way you slice it, all of those drives have ridiculously low Annualized Failure Rates. Backblaze had their lowest overall AFR quarter ever. Getting rid of those WD drives made a big difference....
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wtf price is now 387.99 ... so like what kinda sale was that
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It's a datacenter class HDD, i.e. the highest of the top tier, and the highest capacity too. If you need an HDD and can swing this definitely pull the trigger ASAP; these things are tough to find...
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But what's the chances a standard NAS will support this large a drive? I've got an older EMC and it specifies 6TB as the largest "supported" drive.
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This is $8 cheaper than when I checked three days ago.
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Oh I didn’t see they published new stats for 2020! Thanks!
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So sad I missed this. Was waiting to see how great the sale on the 14TB was. Oh well, I guess I'll have to pony up the extra EIGHT dollars (2%) that this "shell shocker" deal would have saved me. 🙄
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I can vouch for that. I've been using the Seagate 8TB ST8000VN0002 since 2016 to store game installations on one of my PC's and it is still going strong to this day.
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Bummer, Newegg, the Seagate Exos X16 14TB $344.99, ~$5 discount ... was hoping for better price.
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If you open the deal list on newegg, at the bottom you have the list for tomorrow grey out.
I think I might get the 14tb if tomorrow s price is good.
16tb is a lot if I lose it and also fairly $$$.
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Bought 14TB for $190 couple weeks ago
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Waiting on the same deal for months lol.
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No. The best Seagate hard drives are truly the best. Head and shoulders above the rest. Only problem is that Seagate also make many low quality hard drives. With Seagate, you have to be very careful...
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Newegg: Seagate Exos 16TB Enterprise HDD X16 - $379.99 > Now $382.49
5-year Warranty.
Not 100% familiar with this line from Seagate.
More expensive that the shuckable drive but you get 5 years...
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Thank you.
Are these good for NAS, unraid system? Plex ?
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I am hoping to get the 14tb tomorrow around $300.
16tb at $400 with taxe is a lot.
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If it supports drives larger than 4TB, it will almost certainly support larger drives. This drive is also SATA and not SAS, so I would almost guarantee it would work.
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Backup, either separate, in RAID or both is recommended.
I don't think there is much of a difference whether you lose 14GB or 16GB of your stuff.
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I hope that BestBuy would have the $200 14TB "EasyPeasy" external hard drives soon. $400 plus tax will yield me 28TB instead of 16TB. I want the quantity. Quantity has a quality all its own. My...
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My backup strategy is buy couple cheapest drive under $200. couple years later buy double capacity around same price to backup 2 drive.
Bought bunch 8TB before was going to buy 16TB to backup,...
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$20 more and you can get a 16TB Toshiba that will likely not break down after 2 months like Seagates always do.
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Just bought a 10tb exos one for $260.
Wish that was on sale. :(
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Wow, okay, I'm steering clear. The X14 generation looks to be worse than the X12 on the Backblaze charts. Second only to an old 4tb Seagate in terms of annualized failure rate. Low sample size so far...
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2TB ... and that's allot to lose
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sale is back again 379.99
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Thanks for the heads up a/b the 14TB version. If the 14TB is $300 or lower than I will def be pulling the trigger.