I want to by around 6 drives to add to my nas. I was waiting for black Friday sales but they only have modest discounts, recertified drives on ebay seems more enticing
what do you think?
I don’t need that much storage but want to build a small NAS. Any deals on 2 x 8TB drives or so? (or a little bigger is OK if a much better deal). Just don’t want to invest much in it since I only need around 2-3tb right now.
Did u come to a conclusion on this looking to do same
If you’re willing to shuck seagate externals, there is a one from costco. Supposedly seagate is currently using their exos line in their more recently manufactured products. The only downside would be the 1 year warranty.
https://www.costco.com/seagate-14tb-expansion-desktop-hard-drive.product.4000203297.html
Is exos considered reliable? Backblaze reports in the past have always had seagate in dead last.
Exos aren’t inherently bad, I believe it is always going to be down to the specific model number as in their latest drive stat blog for q3, one model of 14tb exo had a ~6% failure rate, while the other had ~1.3% failure rate.
Ya i’m not touching seagate then.
I’ve run WD drives for like 25 years with 0 failures.
$269.99 for 20TB exos 20
Here is a greal deal from newegg for BF sale if you are in the US. It ends tomorrow, so hurry before they run out.
Same drive for sale online at Walmart for the same price of the newegg limit is a problem for anyone
I hope Walmart will still ship even though we bought 4