Lowest price in recent days, I ordered 2 to set up NAS for the first time.
CamelCamelCamel.
Not a crazy deal really, but WD reds are usually about $38 /TB, so this is at least competitive.
Classic comment, yet nobody sharing these sub $30 deals on NAS drives
Classic because price per terabyte is a logical metric to use, or because you reckon we should all just accept the inflated prices these days? Kinda like people saying 'wow, so cheap,' when petrol is $1.70/L because they got used to $1.80/L… When it should probably be more like $1.30/L…?
I understood your comment as saying the price was high, which is common. My point was that there's no point living in the past if you need a drive now
you reckon we should all just accept the inflated prices these days?
What else can you do? The price is the price 🤷
Wait, wait, wait ………..
Until? April 2040?
Or black Friday? I'm hoping for cheaper then but I doubt it will be anything special
Even if there is a half decent special theyre so in demand stock will expire quick to hoarders and scalpers. Heres hoping though
The most aggressive price drops usually land in the week of Black Friday itself, this year on November 28, and continue through Cyber Monday on December 1.
https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/black-friday-hard-driv…
There is a 5% when you buy two
Take it down to $29 per TB
Are these noisy at 12TB? I've got the 6TB ones and they're pretty good.
12tb St12000vn0008 - https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/ironwolf…
Idle (typical): 1.8bels
Seek (typical): 2.8bels
Looks like 6tb are:
Idle (typical): 2.7bels
Seek (typical): 2.8bels
So it sounds like its likely the 12tb is better? Don't have either though so could be wrong, never tried these before.
They've been great for me! I use to use WD Reds, but have had more of those fails for me and I've just been using ironwolf ever since.
My 8TB ironwolf is so noisy
@Tbargain12: 5400 specifically for that reason. It's not vibration noise anyway it's the arm or whatever movements sound so clunky
All 7200rpm drives make more noise
It depends more on your usage patterns
Oh yeah true, looks like 5400rpm only goes up to 8TB. Maybe I'll wait for a deal on those instead. Mine's just for NAS storage, don't actively always read&write, maybe once a week ish.
Delivery in 8 weeks ???
I’m having a mental fit over how much money to commit to a nas. Aoostar WTR max seems like it has good flexibility and room for future expansion?
The more you spend on empty bays now, the less you spend later upgrading drives.
I've swapped out the last of my 4tb drives out of the my Synology now, just so I can get more space. I should have got more bays.
Argh, how do I get my comment back, I just made an awesome post about wtr max being an awesome server but probably over powered if your looking for a nas. Itx with an Intel n100 would be fine for nas/Plex
Jonsbo NAS Case.
Wtr max awesome as a home server.
The thought also occurred to me that I could potentially use it as an AI plaything…
If I spent the extra grand to stuff it full of ram. And maybe bought something to use in the oculink port.
And people seem so gung ho on it being ECC ram.
None of my other ram is ECC =\
This is getting all too hard.
For AI go the minisforum n5 pro, it has a built in npu for AI. 5 bays and your can install a pcie card.
If you want powerful AI, it won't beat a dedicated card by far. But would be good to play around with with many models.
The wtr will need a couple hundred extra for the occulink port as well
@wisc: That thing is $500 USD more for an empty one than a fully loaded WTR!
I think I may need to start with a cheaper plaything and work out my upgrade path.
Thank you for your help though, it's appreciated :)
@Manny Calavera: Argh I'm not posting affiliate links - will try a pm.
update: sent a PM, then used my PC to regenerate the links, (as it was on my phone, and was way too hard to copy paste, keep my message, and get the new links) so here you go:
Daaaauyyymmmmmm, they've gone up in price!
They did have 30% off coupons that bought them down to about 1k…
But I'd say, Byo… Build your own
Or
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009092095916.htm
or 8 bays
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008381344747.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007401414922.html
or
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007329288791.htm
Advantage is they fit a full height graphics.
Can get something sexy in that…
I got the wtr max to replace my gen 8 microserver.
Low power, high memory, small, I don't really need a graphics card for my workload, as my main PC has a 7900xtx that i use for AI testing.
then find a NAS mobo with something like a "Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370" if you can find anything…
Here is a couple that have the 8845HS and have 9 disk slots+2x M.2
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007139898045.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010329329945.html
Don't forget ali have a special on where you can save 150 from these as a minimum, plus other discounts
extra sales start in a few hours as well…
so moboard/cpu/"8 disk case" should be about the same price as the WTR, but has 4x NIC ports as well as PCIE 4.0 x8 and more…
you'd need to add a powersupply, but with the sale would be comparable to the WTR max, but better…
I'm happy with my wtr max though, its nice and small and will replace my HP microserver allowing far greater capacity. the cases linked are larger as they need to fit the graphics card etc.
or you could cheap it and get a n100/ 305 board/CPU which would only be a couple hundred if you dont need that much compute.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009871656354.html
no decent PCIE though. (PCIe 3.0 x1 signal) but you get the idea….
"googled pcie 3.0x1
Inference with small models: If your AI model fits entirely in the GPU's video memory (VRAM), the need for data transfer between the CPU and GPU is minimal, and a PCIe 3.0 x1 slot may be sufficient for inference."
Not sure about the "Usually dispatched within 8 weeks."
Can someone share their experience? Is the price im seeing the AU price or American and I see it is saying "Usually dispatched within 8 weeks.".. Is that for real?
"Usually" its faster, but thats what you should expect.
$31.50 /tb 😬