The deal is back for these brand new 24TB HAMR 7200rpm HDDs.
Prices in title are GST-inclusive.
Comes to be about A$20.8 per TB. I ordered one last deal, arrived well packed and is currently running smoothly, with about 240MB/s sustained transfer speed.
yeah with hard drives i only buy local because I want local Australia warranty when it comes to hard drives.
1000% correct tried and tested both ways …Local is always better esp for warranty and i wouldnt touch barracuda as far as i could throw it. i went 24tb exos no problems ever
Far out there is always something with Seagate.
Link goes to a 20tb drive, not a 24tb drive.
sorry my bad, they're the same price updated the link now
Not sure if I trust international manufacturer or East Digital refurb warranty more… Also it's Barracuda not Exos
2 year manufacturer warranty, compared to East Digital 3 year warranty. Upped anyway because so little East Digital deals lately
Edit: Limit 2 per buyer??
Yeah it would be a weighting of per Slot cost vs per TB cost. I picked this for my personal Plex server as it's not RAIDed (can always redownload said media) and I was on the last free slot for my 5 bay DAS. I wouldn't suggest say buying 5 of these for a NAS
Yeah, prefer EXOS and also waiting for a East Digital deal for my Synology NAS.
Currently $591 and OOS for the 22TB EXOS ones.
Great pricing but "You should get it by 23 Jun."
Any good deals on 4-8tb? Thanks.
would love a deal on some 8tb nas drives
I concur, decently priced 4 or 8tb drives would be perfect for a home NAS.
Sounds like a NAS for ants
At least then they can buy one of these drives (or preferably a better brand) and back up their entire raid array with room to spare! :)
Each to their own, I sold my 4TB drives a good 10+ years ago. Not far from needing to upgrade my current 12TB drives.
@Click_It: Personally I feel like 4x 4tb drives would make for a decent array (whether I used RAID5 or some sort other system with an extra drive or two for redundancy), and to still have 8tb worth of usable space.
Especially just to store a media library type of thing.
@Rail Rider95: 100%
No need buying 24TB drives if you don't need that. 4 x 4TB is is much better than a 16 or 24TB single drive in that case because you'll have your RAID redundancy. RAID5 is ample and just have a backup, which is easy when the raid is this size. A single 16TB drive with a backup schedule and you're sorted!
I went from 1TB > 4TB > 12TB. That's a 4x > 3x and probably next buy will be a 2x, as 6 x 24TB (RAID6 so I get use of 4 drives) will tie me over until at least 2030 at this point. But 4x4 is actually perfect if that's all you need. Very cost effective now.
would that work on non-AU ebay?
It works on the eBay Australia (.com.au) website regardless of what the currency is set to, the currency from the gift cards will be converted to USD in checkout
Waiting for some Ironwolf deals from legit sellers - almost got sucked into buying one of the heavily discounted listings on ebay marked as "new unopened". Then check the reviews a few weeks later and all the negative feedback comes rolling in that they had a hacked firmware to change the TB reported, or had 1000's of hours usage but SMRT data or something reset to appear new.
I've been through this experience. The seller is from China and they use drop shipping from an AU location. Drives come really well packaged and S.M.A.R.T. data is all at zero.
However, the giveaways are:
- various scratches on the drive
- Power and SATA pins have scratches, meaning they were plugged in previously
- Farm Log shows thousands of hours of use. This cannot be wiped and is only available on Seagate drives. Hard Disk Sentinel is your friend here as it can read Farm logs
- The same seller uses multiple, different accounts in eBay. In case he gets busted, he can continue using other accounts
- 2Yr warranty Vs 5yr on Ironwolf drives. Seagate site was unable to work out warranty coverage.
As usual…..if it sounds too good to be true….
Thanks for confirming! I thought it must have been the case!
Waiting for some Ironwolf deals from legit sellers
There haven't been any amazing ones since storage was cheap a couple years ago :(
Any recommendations for something around 10-12 TB range that'll be used in a tower for backing up photos/videos?
Friendly reminder, have cold storage also.
Is there a story with why it is BarraCuda not Barracuda?
Edit: Nevermind, I see that's actually how they call it themselves - had no idea. You'd think after 10000 deals with them in, I'd notice.
The upper-case C has always felt off to me so just looked into it. Seems it was indeed "Barracuda" from around 1992-2012, then they retired the brand until 2016 when they reintroduced it as BarraCuda.
Different emphasis on the syllables?
BarRacuda, BarracuDa…
They have cuda cores
Great $/TB ratio for a NEW drive.
East Digital are selling an abused drive with 3-4 years of runtime and seller warranty, WD 18TB for $18/TB
https://east-digital.myshopify.com/products/wd-ultrastar-dc-…
How do I know they are abused, I own many. About 3-4 years POH's and all have LBA's written at or above the limit of what the datasheet has for writes over 5 years. For some reason they were not as read heavy, but writes, OMG, smashed.
How do you see the total LBA read/writes on yours? Mine are not showing in smartctl for those WD drives
"writes, OMG, smashed"
Probably ex drives used for Chia mining in China. See my post above, probably the same source. Looks like S.M.A.R.T. data wasn't wiped on your drives
Can't wipe smart values on wd drives, which was why I got them.
Using HDD Sentinel which has the ability to see vendor specific information beyond the smart data set. It just gives you a massive number which you need to calculate tbr/tbw off.
Could also have been used in a media library for backups.
That many drives, all showing similar values?
The drives are rated for 550TB/year. That's ~17MB/s for 356 days. That's 2.75PB over 5 years.
I was hitting about 5-8PB over 3 years. thats upto 90MB/s writes. Reads were a drop of that.
They seem fine, but now spend 99% off their remaining life powered off, they are only sync drives with replaceable and backed up data.
When I got them, they claimed 10,000 POH on their eBay listing…yeah right! At the price I paid ~$270 OK, but ~$330, compared to this deal from the OP, yeah, ED can go get F'ed.
Good price but not good for NAS.
Ok now we can get 24TB per drive
is this good for backup data, like regular cold backup?
Has anyone had any bad experience with these Chinese HDD's? I have heard some sellers are selling old (ex. crypto farm HDD) drives as new!? This price feels too good to be true considering how much they retail in AU and there aren't that much margins in these products.
Is it better to go for one of these, or to go for an ex enterprise drive from East Digital? They also have factory refurbished options but I dunno how trustworthy that will be.
I have a Dell t430 with a 2.5" cage but there's 2 unused mini sas plugs that I want to plug a few 3.5" into. due to limitation of space, higher density is nice… But I've heard these drives are not long term worthy.
And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick
Ooh, barracuda, oh yeah
Any good 12/16tb deals around the $200-$250 mark?
Question for the HDD experts.
I leave my PC running most of the time, sometimes weeks without a restart.
Would I be good with this HDD or would I be better off with an enterprise/raid HDD?
I've also never backed up my HDD and never had failures for the last ~15 years with any drives.
I currently got a barracuda HDD and its been fine for years.
I've also never backed up my HDD
Go and back it up RIGHT NOW.
Every single hard drive fails. It could be today, it could be tomorrow, it could be in 7 years. But it will fail.
and never had failures for the last ~15 years with any drives
Stop typing and go and back up your drive RIGHT NOW if you care about what's on it.
Same. I would definitely buy a backup HDD and copy it. RIGHT NOW. I’ve had 2 drives died on me in the past seperate occasions losing childhood photos that weren’t backed up.
As well as to regularly Defragment the HDD drive because it make file access less difficult, and less movement of the read/write head can mean less wear and tear over time, potentially extending the life of the drive.
What kind of drives died on you? consumer? raid? used enterprise?
In 2011, my consumer Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB HDD failed due to corruption and I lost all my scanned photos. In 2012, a WD Green 2TB HDD with regular data and movies broke when the plastic connectors snapped. Both times, I was crushed and thought it wouldn’t happen to me.
Data recovery was too expensive. Thankfully, I had physical photo albums at my parents’ place for the first loss.
Now I avoid hard drives. Everything’s stored online with Google Photos and iCloud. I rarely use a few shucked 3TB WD Reds I bought in 2015 for backup.
Just wanted to share my no-backup story 😉
Mine arrived yesterday, but I should have paid heed to the comments on the earlier deal - one of the two drives was DOA. Much worse packaging than EastDigital - the drives were bubble-wrapped, but one edge was exposed at the seam.
Deal is back up
I know there were some concerns about the specifications seagate post about this drive, I found a decent summary of that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/bapcsalescanada/comments/1jhg0i9/co…