Listed on the JB HiFi website but doesn't appear to be available in any stores near me, so you have to pay $5.99 for Australia Post to deliver it too.
Seagate Expansion Desktop 14TB Hard Drive $399 + Delivery ($0 C&C/In-Store) @ JB Hi-Fi
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Lwongm on 02/01/2024 - 22:42 jbhifi.com.au (952 clicks)
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Small modular reactor?
Looks like the only SMR drives in the Seagate range are 8 TB and below - everything else is CMR.
oh that's great - I stand corrected
Neither Exos drives, nor IronWolf pros, are SMR.
So far, no region has reported these containing anything other than those two SKU's.
If these are indeed exos or ironwolf pro inside (bear in mind shucking them voids your warranty) then that’s not bad as I paid $400 for a 12tb ironwolf pro just the other day from Unser and that was the cheapest I could find. Yes I also bought a few exos from the other deal also for far cheaper
Did shucking start voiding seagate warranty? I know it does for WD, but seagate would be a recent change.
Local store warranty sure, but unless something has changed in the last 3 months I missed, they dont record what serials are in portable cases, so the drives show up for warranty as regular internal drives.
Hence why Seagate are the more popular 'shuck.
@MasterScythe: There are certain area with laws forbid warranty void on shucked drives.
WD easystore/elements enclosure is very easy to take apart and you can easily put them back together for warranty - I keep everything for shucked drives within the warranty period just in case. Seagate enclosures on the other hand are pain in the ass to teardown. But I claimed warranty once with shucked bare drive quite a few years ago (8TB Expansion, SMR Barracuda inside) and got approved and replaced with a recertified drive. Interestingly enough, I returned a bare drive, but got a Backup Plus Hub (the enclosure with a built-in dock) instead.
@xmagic: I'd expect that it's considered entirely reasonable for anyone with a failed drive to have dismantled it to attempt data recovery between failure and claiming warranty.
Unlike WD to whitelabel enterprise drives before putting them into an enclosure for consumers, Seagate just shove run-of-the-mill enterprise drive into those enclosures. Of course in exchange of the warranty. Probably also not binned down like WD does since the label is still legit.
Although I shuck drives all the time, I don't consider shucked drives the same as enterprise drives from proper channel.
@xmagic: Exactly :)
They dont know it was originally in a case, so they warranty still stands, unless something has recently changed.
Based on this post from a month ago, it might have a SATA Exos 2x14 inside.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1809red/shucke…
That would be awesome. MACH.2 on the cheap.
Edited: It's SATA-variant MACH.2 so on a different firmware and seems work like a normal drive.
Were these 359 before Xmas?
49 dollars too much
My drive arrived today - according to CrystalDiskInfo it's a ST14000NM0121 inside, which is a Seagate Exos X14.
Probably SMR