$300 + post @ Kogan, $318 @ MSY
1 Hour only, 40 units only. If you want it, get in there when it starts :)
Also worth a mention:
Logitech G430 7.1 Gaming Headset - $59 Shipped (20 Units, 10-11pm AEST)
$10 cheaper than elsewhere, plus free shipping
Seagate Archive 8TB SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - $288 Shipped @ Shopping Express (40 Available, Sunday 9-10pm AEST)
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These drives are meant for cold storage, meaning a company writes well.. let's say their last 5 years of server logs to it, then keeps the drive in a cupboard until those logs are actually needed, in that case they plug it into a computer and look at the logs. They are built to be heavily written to, and rarely read from.
Don't use these disks in a NAS, they will die quick.
Seagate claim:
"Enjoy peace a mind with a drive engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year " . Specs like that don't really indicate it's meant to sit in a cupboard. 180TB per year, 24x7 is a significant workload
I very much agree with your comment not to use them in a NAS, they are not good in RAID at all. But that's a more a result of the SMR technology, not any particular workload rating
But to claim they are designed for cold storage is incorrect. They are designed for bulk archive, ONLINE storage.
If you use them for what they're intended for (think media drives for Plex for personal use case) they are great value.
Bought 2, one backup externally. The other with all my media :) great value, sold many drives in the process and went out in front.
Bugger, I almost bought two to go in the NAS. :)
So what high capacity drives would be OK in a nas?
CheersOk let me clarify my statement from before…they work fine in a NAS, just not in a RAID 5/6 set (which is usually the default for most people that add a few drives to a NAS)
I've got a Synology DS1813 and have 5 in it - 2 in 2 mirror sets, and 1 as a jbod. The drives work fine in a mirror and work as fast as any other drive in the NAS. The SMR technology means they are slower to write to when previously used blocks are written over, but even then it's a speed drop from 100MB/sec to 50MB/sec. This does have an impact if you've made yourself say a Raid 5/6 set with a few of these drives - the sheer amount of data involved in a rebuild means you'll be looking at days for a raid set rebuild.
correct ….. drives that aren't designed to be written to often have shorter life cycle on the number of times the heads can be parked…… that is why people used to reflashing the firmware in WD green drives so the heads didn't park as quickly .
they design different drives for different purposes…. often it's just firmware but it's optimised for an application.
Using 4 in a Synology NAS with SHR redundancy for 24TB of usable space (and 8TB for redundancy). Probably will die quicker, have slower performance, etc, but it's working beautifully for me for the last 9 months with negligible slowdown (I was using 4x4TB Seagate Barracuda Deskop Drives before). Nothing beats this for price per GB.
Anyone have these working in a N40/N54L? Does the bios detect them as 8tb correctly?
I have my server set up as a windows 8 box with drivepool, so it's technically not a RAID config. Wondering if I can replace a number of drives with some 8 tb drives..
I have three of these set up in my n54l as a media storage/server. No issues at all. Detected just like ordinary hdds. As others have said before, use them as online archival disks (not RAIDS and not frequent writes) and they will work well.
ahh.. good to hear.. yeah.. my servers are archive drives.. I never delete and just like to store stuff..
From what I remember, they were around $270ish from kogan during ebay 20% off, but still great price for local stock.
ANyone know if you get GST receipt from shopping express?
Yes you do. Just bought one.
Sold out, just tried to order and it went right through the process then told me Zero in stock.
well I just pulled the trigger, it was either this or the 6tb hitachi from newegg for $320 ish, but seeing as it is just for cold storage, Im hoping this will be OK
Advertised so much and none left within minutes.. That sucks
Only 16min into this deal and it is already gone? Come on SE, up your game and make a similar deal again since I doubt it that 40 units were sold in 8min.
I don't doubt it at all. Very good price and it's not like ozbargain only has a small memebership base so plenty of people would have been ready to jump on it, not to mention there were likely people who went back and ordered a 2nd one under a different account. Wouldn't have taken long at all for them all to disappear.
These drives are big and cheap, but they are slow. Look at online reviews, they only have a small cache so filling the drives can take a looong time.
For storage of 8tb of legal linux roms they're ideal tho :)
Other than the following differences, can these "Archive" drives be used in a NAS ? (reliability wise for 24x7 operation)
-This is gear towards reading, thus reading performance is better than normal drive.
-Writing performance is lower than normal drive.