Price has dropped again to US$159.99
Works out to be around AU$180 with the decent AUD/USD.
Sold for $222+ locally
Shipping costs:
x1 = US$9.86
x2 = US$14.74
x3 = US$19.61
x4 = US$24.48
xN = DIY…
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I wonder if a price drop on amazon will lead to a price drop in local stores?
I am currently in the market for exactly this.
I bought 2 of these from Amazon last time they dropped to this price. IIRC the packaging was OK, and the drives work fine (so far). Just ordered 2 more.
You're better off waiting till eBay does 20% off this Sunday and getting this from the good guys. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=121320283275&al…
But that is for an external drive. You can take the drive apart but it is also not the same NAS model as posted.
Has anyone tried something like this?
I have an old box sitting around doing nothing and in my current pc I have 5tb of internal drives and another 5tb of external drives that I rotate when needed and its all getting pretty messy.
Turn an Old Computer Into a Do-Anything Home Server with FreeNAS 8
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I prefer my HP Microservers (4 x 3TB + 4 x 2TB) and my Hotway 4 bay (non-raid, JBOD, USB 3, eSATA) enclosure where I put the drives I ripped out of their USB 2 external cases.
The drives you rip out of your enclosures are crap in comparison mate. Just saying…
They may not be of the same speed or designed for NAS however they seem to be doing fine for serving media at home over several years. I have Hitachi in the servers and I haven't had any failures of either. That's only anecdotal however many home users like me are finding WD greens (what they put into the external drives) etc fine for their home NAS
They won't last several years…
LOL. They won't(?) but they have. More than several…
Might be just lucky hence my use of the term anecdotal.
You must be… are they WD Greens? I also have a microserver and 2 have already died (and not even with heavy use) - it's a pain because now I have to rebuild my zfs pool from scratch.
Nah, none of mine have caused me grief either, the only HD that has caused issues is a Samsung.
As I said in my post I have Hitachi drives in the server and mixed external and ripped out drives in the Hotway 4 Drive box. I have over 30 3.5 drives at home going back more than 5 years old (from 500 gb up to 3 TB) and the only failures I have had were segates which were older and ones I used rarely (sat on a shelf for months) or OS drives (and 2 2.5 Seagate externals). I have had WD Greens in external cases serving 3000 to 6000 torrents 24/7 for 18 months with no issues. I can only say that everything could stop working tomorrow but to date I have had no issues.
I should add I use the Hitachis & WD Greens in a jbod setup. Very little of my data is irreplaceable and I couldn't be bothered with the stuffing around with RAID and recovering data if a single drive does go.
How does a NAS hard drive compare to a standard hard drive in performance?
Over the last few weeks I was looking into this and from what I have been able to glean is the performance is the same but the warranty is longer and the price generally a bit higher. Performance may be a bit better in some models as the cache is larger for some NAS HDD. For some NAS HDD you need to be careful of the interface offered maybe, some offer SAS - did not look into that though, I stuck with SATA 3. Mostly, if a HDD will fail it is going to be in the first few months or then after a significant period of time - according to the graphs I have seen. Unfortunately there are so many articles referencing the blazeback experience that other information has been hard to come by.
It is more so advanced error detection over standard (desktop) drives ronnkee. They are also running at a lower RPM so don't run so hot. In an environment where often 4 disks or more are crammed in next to eachother that is a huge plus. I have a 5 bay NAS and the middle drive died first in my array, I believe it had to do with the higher temperature in part.
It is rated for more read/writes - so a longer lifespan, and also has a lower power consumption than regular HDDs.
I just bought 3 of these. 2 from MSY @ $215 and 1 from PLE @ $229.
That is a damn decent price.
Just purchased one to replace my old one from back in 2007, thanks op
how about warranty? worldwide covered or only in US?
I ordered 2x WD40EFRX 4TB WD Reds for US$370 delivered from Amazon a few days ago.
Personally, I would not go with Seagate.. that's just my opinion.
Which ones did you order specifically? I can't find any that ship to AUS…
4TB WD Reds are slightly more expensive, but are worth it in the long run in terms of longevity and power consumption.
phobaphobic WD's 2 year warranty does not instill confidence like Seagates 5 year warranty.
You have to put a lot of trust in it being packaged well. That's a heck of a long trip for a repackaged HDD. I wonder what the fail rate is on HDD's once they have been refreighted? I have had tech sent from Amazon and local online stores loose in a box with no padding and heaps of rattle room so I'm a bit nervous about taking up this sort of offer.