Seagate 6TB STEB6000403 External Hard Drive - $141.77 + Delivery (Free with Prime) @ Amazon UK via AU

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Not as good as the Prime Day deal of $146, but this time it has no order limit.

Update: price dropped to $141.77, better than Amazon Prime day

I bought 3 at the last deal and shucked them all; inside are ST6000DM003 drives (DM-SMR warning). No tape mod required.

Note that smartctl will not report anything if you connect the drive via USB instead of SATA.

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  zCrimson on 17/11/2020 - 01:15

  +2

  Cost per TB is $27.82

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    xavierod on 17/11/2020 - 07:34

    How does that compare with recent 10gb and 12gb deals?

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      [Deactivated] on 17/11/2020 - 09:49

      i also want a one off solution. not rely a fan of portable 2tb drives. are these Amy good or should i go full 12tb

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      zCrimson on 17/11/2020 - 11:28

      Well I picked up 2 of the WD 12TB Xbox Hard Drive and they had enterprise class hard drives inside (DC HC520) and they where $315.59 each. I will be getting another 2 of them when they come cheap again, hopefully not this month as I've spent over a grand on several SSD's… a bit of OCD is to blame for this.

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      crankyjay on 17/11/2020 - 16:22

      +1

      Depends on how you price your appetite for data loss and how much data you need to store.

      Hypothetically, if you need 24TB of storage you can do so with 6 x 6TB disks in a ZFS RaidZ2 array and have a data loss probability of 0.00001138277036% over 5 years (calculator: https://wintelguy.com/raidmttdl.pl) for $996, assuming 1% annualized drive failure rate and 876000hr MTBF

      Or you can use 2 of the 12TB drives as JBOD and have a data loss probability of 5% over 5 years for a price of $562.

      Personally I only run either RAIDZ2 in vdevs of 6 disks or RAIDZ10 with vdevs of 2 disks. Since I don't need over 100TB of usable, redundant storage, I never buy the 12TB drives.

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  cryptowiz on 17/11/2020 - 05:34

  +3

  I remember buying a Quantum 240MB (yes MB) drive for a PC I built back in 1991 and it cost $1,200. I bought it because it had reached the unbelievable (at that time) price point of $5 per MB.

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    Grok on 17/11/2020 - 09:06

    +2

    I raise you 20MB hard drive for $500 in ~1984 to replace a 5 1/4 360k boot floppy on my PC XT Turbo clone.

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      cryptowiz on 17/11/2020 - 12:15

      +1

      Hah! In 1978 I bought a floppy drive for my Apple II from Computerland and it cost just shy of $500. That was a lot of money when I was earning $6,000 a year.

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        Grok on 18/11/2020 - 09:12

        The “good old days”.

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    zCrimson on 17/11/2020 - 11:31

    My first PC had 8GB, and thinking back my mind thinks that's just wrong.

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  cemenos on 17/11/2020 - 10:46

  is it compatible for mac? and what type of plug coming from amazon UK ?

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    cryptowiz on 17/11/2020 - 12:20

    Not much use for a Mac as it is because it's USB 3 or 2 only. You could always shuck the drive and put it in an external drive housing with Thunderbolt connectors such as what www.macfixit.com.au sell.

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    crankyjay on 17/11/2020 - 13:29

    +2

    mine came with a mix of interchangeable plugs last time (UK, US, AU, Euro)

    as for Mac compatibility, drives are pretty much OS independent

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  delz on 21/11/2020 - 15:35

  +2

  Thanks OP got one because it seems like the price has gone down to $141.77 which brings the value down to $23.63/TB!