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Seagate Archive 8TB SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive $299 + P/H @ Shopping Express
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Seagate Archive 8TB SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive $299 +P/H @SE [~AU $293.55 Delivered @ Amazon]
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monty.melb on 27/04/2016 - 11:55 shoppingexpress.com.au (236 clicks)
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Same boat here… basically copy once, read once….
Woohoo 32 Tb of who know what! Where do u live? I will bring my 3Tb external drive to copy stuff ;)
It's an archive drive. Write performance (speed) isn't guaranteed, it's not really meant to be used as an OS drive, and it's not meant for RAID.
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb
Personally, until there is a history of SMR reliability I'm not using this kind of drive on anything important.
Was never intended on using one of these as a so drive, there is the optical drive slot for a nice sized ssd.
I've got four, and they make some pretty scary noises like they are about to die. But so far so good for media server usage. Using them on my N40L with Windows 10 as the OS.
How do you find the N40 copes with Windows 10?
To be honest sometimes since I installed windows 8 occasionally it tries to install some stupid update and that might cause the nas to hang until it rolls back the update. Windows 10 occasionally has the same issues. But I rather run Windows than windows server due to the fact I am more familiar with it more than anything.
Using mine to store all my media.. works well since you only ever need like two connections or something to it at any one time. It's "Slower" than conventional drives in the sense of seek times and probably with small files. However, works perfect with large media files and I write to it sustained @160MB/Sec which is pretty good for a mechanical drive.
Yeah saw that email, and double checked elsewhere
~US$225 @ Amazon = ~AU$293.55 deliveredAnd it's $319 @ MSY
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=8tb+seagate…Have updated post, it's part of SE's "Epic Hour" that started at 12pm AEST. Not sure why MM didn't notice :P
Yep, noticed that. Not a bad deal now :)
What's the deal here this is the usual price at MSY ?
Fixed title. For 24hrs it's $299 + Post
Now this is a better price, but shipping kills it:(
Call the police, there's been another murder by shipping price thugs.
KOGAN selling it for the similar price, also for the old 15% or 20% off ebay deal, it has better deal from local supply. e.g. Shopping Express. So, if you are not in hurry, just wait! BTW, i bought 2 of them before, and i just did a warranty on 1 driver after about 4 months use. i only use it for store the backup, not daily usage. 1 of them still dead in 4 months time, so…. quality is hard to say :)
Using 4 of these from Kogan during the 20% off sale in a Synology NAS in RAID5. Yes I know its risky and slow etc, but my data isn't really that important (just movies, TV shows), and for that price (~$270 each), the price per GB couldn't be better.
Same boat as you, it's the best bang for your buck hard disk around.
Yep i also picked up some from Kogan during the same sale. If I recall it ended up being about $260-270 AUD delivered.
Running them in my ML10V2 Microserver as normal hard disks in Windows 10, and will be running Drivepool on top.
As storage for TV/movies/photos/music they seem perfect.
Why not just delete the media and re-download it as you see fit? Saves a lot of money and space. (the internet is the hard drive?)
And when fibre optic international cables get cut…. and everything has gone to hell?? Local storage media is 1000x cheaper and faster than cloud/peer based data
There are also those of us old enough to have had large CD/DVD (& Cassette + VHS) collections of rare & hard to find music & movies that have spent many years ripping it all and have it on NAS storage. Sure, there's a lot of stuff available online but there's also still hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of amazing movies & tracks that may never make it. Without my NAS I'd still need some way of playing Cassettes, VHS Tapes and would need to go out and buy a CD/DVD Player as I tossed all that junk out 12 years ago.
Saying that once 4k comes along I might go down that road.
Picked up 2 at MSY yesterday for $319, not worth the postage risk with Amazon, they can be a little rough with bare drives.
Painfully slow writing small files, good with larger files though.
I have one in my Synology as a backup for the Raid set.
First one I got died, MSY replaced it and its been fine ever since.
Bought a few of these in the 20% off Kogan sale. Price came down to a car-azy low $247.53 each delivered. Using a couple of them mirrored in an old i5 PC running Xpenology 24/7 inc. PLEX, Survellance Station plugins and a shed-load of my Music, Movies, TV Shows, Pics and Docs. Absolutely bulletproof thus far so no complaints at this stage. Very highly recommended and best bang for buck.
another data point…
i have five running in raid-Z2 on freenas in a N40L w/ 16Gb since Dec 2015.
still running fine - scrubs have not picked up any anomalies yet.
That's the kind of set up I am planning next. my hat goes off to you sir!
How good are these drives for a g8 server? Is 4x8tb… ? For a home server that is used daily and never turned off?