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Well. After thinking it over… I bit. Bought only 2 rather than 4. Gonna do shr. First time. Had ds920+ sitting 2-3 years. It’s time to put it together. I have 8 wd external but shucking is too much...
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Warning wd owners
https://youtu.be/cLGi8sPLkLY
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Solid deal, thanks. I've bought so many of these over the past 6 months and had zero issues so far. I'll never shuck another WD drive again.
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Got on the same deal. Put all 4 in my NAS and they are running great.
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They are silent when spun down. I run an unraid with these, they only make noise when first waking up, or having a lot of read/writes off them at once. Otherwise, watching 2 streams via jellyfin they...
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Not as familiar with Seagate as WD, but this seems like a great price
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Got a 12tb drive from them 2 months ago and everything is working great. My only complaint is that it's noisy when active
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Not sure that I agree that the failure rate for mechanical drives is 100%. I still have some IDE hard drives that are fine, and other SATA drives that I hook up occasionally to back things up. 1 or...
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This right here. The attractive price is not for a single drive, unless you only need that as the cold backup for existing drives, ie completing the 3-2-1 rule. Just budget for multiple drives, or...
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DrivePool is easier to use and much less susceptible to data loss. In storage spaces, data for one file is written across multiple disks. If you have an OS crash, you might not recover your storage...
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Thanks for sharing. I use Dynamic Disk Pooling as well (it's the concept behind of UnRAID).
I agree with you that if you are doing redundancy instead of just ripping blu-rays for media center,...
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I think you missed the point of my post - not that Seagate is necessarily bad, just that MTBF isn't as valuable as some people (esp mfrs) would have you believe.
Also, I'm aware it's an old...
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Even synology a simple NAS with 2 parity disks and ZFS/BTRFS with block level protection/snapshot replication better than any windows solution...
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jesus man, are you still on this? unbelievable. Seriously please read the whole conversation, and more importantly UNDERSTAND IT. Note where I told him he better short Seagate if he thought it was...
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I have run two unraid servers for 2 years of run time, constantly running about 350TB ea , 48 drives total. Rebuilt the array like 20 times to upgrade storage . Anyway never had a issue with one bad...
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I bought 4 x 12TB from this seller about six weeks ago. Shipped fast. Packaged VERY WELL. No tax. And they're running great.
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Are these noisy? I have a Synology with a WD from an Easystore and that's not too loud.
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Don't buy Seagate, let along recertified/refurbished. Good luck.
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I have 4 exos drives, no major problems. I am also running a 16 tb iron wolf drive from this store for about a month, it’s very noise but working great
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I am required to downvote for using “kiddo,” which is right there with “doggo, “the wife” and “hubs.”
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Everyone here should look into unraid or true nas . Nowadays no one should be just running huge capacity drives without parity
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So i run 2.5 PiB on two racks and two unraid servers with over 1 PiB and never had an issue.
but thanks for letting us all know that a surge can kill hdds, what you failed to explain is that you...
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I would suggest looking into a 4-5 bay synology with at least 1 drive parity. Preferably 2 drives.
you can run synology raid which is just like unraid but using BTRFS a file system that prevents...
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Dell Servers
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I've posted this in other threads with these drives and this vendor, but from a sample size of two 16TB, I had one drive die just outside of the 30 days return window. Although I had to pay shipping...
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too many likes....not sure why? I don't think its a good deal as I would prefer to have 5-7 years of warranty on my array of disk.... piece of mind.
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That's a lot of pron.
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You should check out snapraid. Prior to moving to unraid I ran tiered SS on windows and used snapraid to "backup" my volumes and it also has checksumming. Free, go check it out. I also used...
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My Exos drives run in my Synology in a small rack next to my desk. They're clickly/loud, but I wouldn't say MUCH louder than WD Red Pros. People sleep in there without complaint (it's an office/guest...
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If you're going with a NAS forget qnap and buffalo, as much as I hate to say it synology is the best choice if you're not going freenas.
I've used them all over the past 15 years and although I...
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The manufacturer recertified drives DO NOT have a warranty through Seagate. I checked both of mine. Their site even states that the warranty is through the seller.
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The key is to make it so you will not lose data. Do that first. Then always buy the cheapest drives. There are no drives that will prevent data loss if you don't have redundancy for availability...
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RAID is not a backup. It's only for up-time and availability.
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Go away, you either don't understand obvious sarcasm or are just trolling at this point.
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You should keep your discussions and sarcasm that are not useful for the entire forum in a PM to your buddy. Will make it better for everyone here
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I’m not downvoting anyone, but I put kiddo and the wife in a separate category from doggie and hubs.
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That's funny. I recently retired a Seagate Barracuda 500GB drive that I bought in Aug 2007. It has been in continuous use for 16 years. Never had any problems or any bad SMART reports.
The only...
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Personally recommend Stablebit DrivePool as well, just less complex and less chance of user screw-ups. Bundled with their CloudDrive software, there can be surprisingly useful things you can do. IMHO...
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Got 4 x18 16tb from them a few months back for my jellyfin server. Everything works great. Would buy from them again if I was in the market.
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