Just purchased a new NAS and have been searching for some NAS drives and these Western digital RED 3TB drives seem to be a bloody good price Including free shipping. I have compared prices including eBay with the current coupons and these are the cheapest I can find currently with plenty of stock.
good spotting
Seagate != WD
Yea seeing as you pay $43 for the first three TBs seems silly not to get another tb for half that. The 4TB reds are 150 somthing
Off topic, but back in 2011, I bought several Hitachi 3TB 5400 drives for $149 each, the day before the Thailand flood hit.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/25/thailand-…
Unless I'm missing something, it's interesting that 3TB drives have only been on par as of the last 12 months or so.
Yep with the floods and the R&D/investment focus on SSD this has been a sad decade for HDDs
Hitachi deathstars? Are they still working today?
That was one particular model when they were actually owned by IBM, before Hitachi bought that division from them.
The 5k edition drives were solid. Mine are 5k3000. Here is a review on the 5k4000 (4tb version - basically the same, including 5 platters)
https://www.storagereview.com/hitachi_deskstar_5k4000_review
Yes, all still working in my media centre. Though I don't really use it anymore and the array is powered down most of the time.
The hard drive division of Hitachi got sold off to Western Digital.
Getting all nostalgic now.
Well, I've had quite a few deskstar drives (mostly from recycled office PCs) and I can say the nickname is quite fitting. Don't even bother testing them anymore, straight in the bin.
@ssquid: Cool. Doing some digging, the "famous" ones were from a long time ago, the 75GXP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_models
The IBM Deskstar 75GXP (six models ranging in capacity from 15 to 75 GB) became infamous circa 2001 for their reportedly high failure rates,[5][6] which led to the drives being colloquially referred to as "Deathstar",[7] due to which the drives were ranked 18th in PC World's "Worst Tech Products of All Time" feature in 2006.[8][9] Note the simultaneously announced IBM Deskstar 40GV, a 5400 RPM version of the 7200 RPM 75GXP, did not suffer from the same reported high failure rate.
If you think about it objectively, it's unlikely that any manufacturer would continue a process that results in a bad product, particularly one with such notoriety. Kind of like saying "all Fords are bad" if they do a recall on one particular model. Actually come to think of it Western Digital had an awful model hard drive in the mid 2000's at some point, the BB series - 2MB cache IDE drives, that were known for failure. The subsequent models of JB (with 8MB cache I think) were much better.
I did a lot of research at the time and chose the Hitachi drives with confidence.
The deathstars were IBM, hitachi purchased em after that debacle. They had about a 40% failure rate, i had 2, got them replaced for free.
$20 more get 4tb ironwolf