One of my NAS drives failed, so was looking for a replacement 3TB, and these seem pretty good. I'm not sure if these are optimised for NAS, or gaming or what, but I think drives are the same, with firmware tweaks. Anyway A$112 seems like a deal.
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Seagate 3tb were some of the least reliable a year or two ago. I stay away from them. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/ is one example discussion on their failure rates in server environments. I personally have had two die in six months.
I personally have had two die in six months.
That Seagate life.
You wouldn't use a desktop hard drive which is designed for desktop PC's in a server. That's just a stupid idea.
The Seagate Barracuda Compute is designed only for a desktop PC or average casual use. No NAS. That would be the reason why the drive would break down in about a year if placed in a NAS or a server.
Had one of these in my NAS for a little over 1 year before it started getting bad sectors.
I've since replaced it with WD Red.
I got a WD Red too and it's great.
Here's a tip. The WD Elements 4TB Desktop external drives contain a WD Red 4TB HDD in it and can be shucked. I got one from one of them i bought from Officeworks and shucked it but i use it in a desktop PC. No problems at all with my movies on it.
A terrible idea to use this for NAS. These aren't designed for NAS at all. It has a standard firmware with no NAS feature support and isn't designed to run 24/7. You will destroy the drive in a NAS. It's the Ironwolf drives which are for NAS.
Rather bad wording in the deal title.
WD purple always
Those drives are designed for video surveillance recording.
Yes and this is the reason why i think the OP made a terrible choice if thinking he/she can just place it in the NAS thinking that every thing will be fine. No Barracuda drive has NAS support in the firmware. You need a HDD with complete NAS firmware support such as the WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf or else you will run into big trouble doing a NAS. It's not the same as a NAS drive and nor can you even tweak the firmware to make it like a NAS firmware drive.
Please don't buy these drives unless it's for a family member you now despise.
Brand hate aside, these particular 3TB Seagates were the WORST drives in modern history, at least since the IBM Deathstars.
I don't know if they fixed them, probably unlikely.
And if you ignore my advice and do buy one, please don't put it in your NAS. Tick tock…
These are the newer Barracuda Compute drives which i don't think suffer from that issue of the previous model.
I stand corrected.
I still wouldn't put them anywhere near a real NAS if longevity is a goal.
I reckon if you use the HDD in 1-bay NAS, that should be OK (As long as not heavy duty).
mmm I got my WD Reds 3TB cheaper around Xmas
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/427840
nice cheap ZFS setup.
Wow deal is getting torched! I'm sort of glad i didn't buy these in the end. Turns out my failing disc is a WD Red, after 1.5 years. They're warranty'd for 3 years, so I'm trying to get a free replacement before going and buying another. But I have learned a lot from the feedback here. Looks like there are better choices for NAS applications. Thanks :)
The ironwolf drives are NAS rated, these are not. Ironwolf drives have the warranty and different operating specifications suited to 24/7 environments.