Enterprise Hard Drives are design for 24/h use in data centres so expect good read/write performance however they may be noisy. Deal has limit of 4 per customer.
Pros: Good value at $24.75 / TB and I've heard you can register with Seagate for a 5 year warranty.
Cons: Newegg has a questionable reputation when it comes to warranty / returns. Newegg tries flogging extended warranties, so I recommend being careful to avoid that option.
I see that it's shipped from the USA. But even then that much just to ship a hard drive internationally is extremely rich. No one legit charges $100 to ship that.
Tempted, but not sure that I trust newegg for things like hard drives.
Great price but newegg has always had warranty claim issues. If Amazon wants to price match then great deal.
Yep, I won't buy from newegg overseas again, DOA drives and then have to pay to send them back and they only refund not replace. Drive had been damaged before it even left newegg.
I managed to get a bunch of these second hand for a good price.
They are unbelievably quiet and cool, next to my 8tb iron wolfs it's like they aren't even on!
Hmm, Your experience seems to be very different to most. My Exos is very loud.
Is your the x16 though?
Yes. I tried reading up and some of the other sizes are noisy too (suposedly)
@ozbs25: Mine is in a preclear in an open external case right now.
Can't even hear it, compared to the 8tb I precleared least week which I could hear over the TV.
@thedean: I'm getting the X16 and the sizes mixed up. I have an X16 16TB drive and it's pretty noisy. The vibration is really strong too.
@ozbs25: is there a place they rank the noise? i feel like that is my no1 factor when choosing HDD other than smr cmr
@Hornpub: Not sure, but I am happy to record.
I agree, I run a sff PC thats water cooled to be dead silent, and currently the HDD is the loudest thing in it (an old 7200rpm WD enterprise drive).
Can't wait to pop this in it to reduce the noise.
Thanks OP, bought 2. I'll take a chance with Newegg, and have paid with Paypal in case I need refunded returns or similar. Came to $699.74 with my 28 Degrees (paid in USD, 28Deg converted to AUD.) Don't forget 0.75% cashback.
Update on my experience, both drives arrived yesterday and were packaged extremely well. Seems like Gamer Nexus put some fear into Newegg so they’re packing things properly now to avoid RMA situations. Drives are loud, but so far faultless, and running verification checks in my DS220+.
I can have all my Pron collection in 1 HDD
Oh sweet summer child, wait until you start collecting 8K UHQ VR pr0n nature documentaries. There isn't a NAS big enough for those. : (
Shame the larger capacities are not on sale.
Looked like a bargain until they wanted to add almost $100 in shipping.
Be careful if ordering and not in a capital city as the free shipping may not apply.