Redeem a BONUS $50 VISA Gift Card from Seagate if purchased before 30th September 2025 (T&C's Apply).
Seagate 24TB BarraCuda 3.5inch Hard Drive, SATA3 6Gb/s, 7200RPM, 512MB Cache, CMR
2 Year Warranty
$50 more than https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/922015
Available a Umart and others.
Pretty good deal for retail local drive after gift card.
That's a lot of Linux distros!
In all seriousness I'm not close to pricing on HDDs nowadays but is the deal this specific model, or the fact there's a $50 gift card from Seagate, etc…
Because they're CMR, its a good price in general.
How does this comapre to EastDigital offerings?
Would be curious to know as well. Similar $/TB to East Digital offerings, but these are Barracuda (consumer) as opposed to EXOS (enterprise), so they are supposedly quieter but much less reliable. Anyone else able to chime in?
Correct, enterprise drives typically have much higher MTBF numbers, but they do tend to be slightly more noisy but honestly not a great deal of difference for most people.
I would probably lean towards an enterprise drive if you plan on running it in a NAS or a similar environment where airflow might not be great. Heat stress will kill these drives in the long term and a 2 year warranty is not great, comparatively most enterprise drives have 5 year warranties for a reason.
Still its a pretty good deal overall if you have the right environment that will keep these drives stress free.
Anyone have any thoughts deciding between this for
Seagate 24TB BarraCuda
Status: Brand New
Price: $499 with $50 vouncher + $10 delivery from ShoppingExpress
Warranty: 2 years
or
Seagate 28TB EXOS (ST28000NM000C)
Status: 0 used time,Factory Recertified
Price: $550 (Free Delivery)
Warranty: 3 years
https://east-digital.myshopify.com/products/st28000nm000c-se…
(There is also a Seagate 24TB EXO for $458 as well from east-digital)
My plan is it's going to be used in a USB exclosure as a offline backup drive so write once read not so often.
The warranty + better MTBR specs makes the 28TB look better but it is recertified so not sure which one will be more reliable out of these two.
@jman177: Brand spanking new consumer grade vs
Refurb enterprise grade
I guess in the 3 years the refurb would be "safer" beyond that… I'll need my crystal ball
Actually keen on people opinions/risk tolerance on this. I'm still using 4tb wd greens from 2013 as cold back ups lol
They're the same on paper, 2400 power on hours. The assumption is they're are both HAMR drives that haven't reached their full capacity rating for whatever reason and Seagate just sells them as new barracuda's or rectified EXOS.
I've had the 24tb barracuda for a few months now and have been happy with it, go with whatever suits your price per TB and warranty needs, but I wouldn't put much weight at all on the label seagate (Barracuda vs Recert EXOS) has slapped on them.
Barracuda and Recert EXOS would be very different?
EXOS would have Rotational Vibration Sensors & RAID Optimisation while Barracuda would not?
So for NAS, I would look at EXOS.
Once again, the BarraCuda series are only rated to be used 6.5 Hours a day. Potentially unsuitable if you are thinking of throwing this in a server or NAS.
Does this rating includes idle time?
I believe yes, it's power on time which includes everything.
Shopping Express is matching the older MSY deal at $499. Also eligible for the $50 VISA card. Shipping is coming out at around $12.50.
https://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/seagate-barracuda-24t…
I think you need to buy 2 to be eligible?
Seagate Exos X22 22TB is $770 with $70 gc?
Barracuda? No Way Jozay
I recently had an Exos X20 20TB fail - luckily ServerpartDeals replaced it
how long did you have it before it failed?
How’s the reliability tho? Heard some horror stories around it.
$22.916 per TB
$20.833 per TB with the $50 gift card