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Seems like a decent price in the current market. I know it has been cheaper in the past but this is the best price I can find at the moment and I haven't seen any post on ozb regarding this drive for a while.
That's a great price but I think for me, given the limited number of HDD bays in my NAS, I'd probably go for something larger to give me more room to grow.
+1 re larger drives due to limited bays in the NAS (just 4 drive bays in ours) We just ordered a new QNAP TS-453BE-4G 4 Bay NAS which is also from Futu-online, the price is $650 (So we paid $520 delivered using the 20% off code), and we are looking at buying four NAS 10TB WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf NAS drives (using mirror raid, so this gives us just 20TB with full 20TB backup for drive failure. Sounds wasteful I know, but much worse to lose all our family photos, videos and computer backups as we have just had with our current WD 8TB MyCloud NAS die without my having a backup of that drive. Luckily we had most of the missing data required spread across several old 1TB and 2TB drives from my old computer rebuilds over the years). The old WD MyCloud stands like a large book, and it fell on to its side on my desk which finished it off (Now giving the click of death). When they die, they die.
Past that backcapture of much of our missing data I have actually lost about two years of photos and family videos and system backups (Still have everything from the 1950's to around 2017 thankfully. This has finally pushed me to spend on the larger scale and more reliable storage now. (Can always go to the new "HAMR" NAS drives later on)
I Just cannot make my mind up between the current NAS Seagate and WD units for the 4 drives to install in the QNAP when it shows up here in WA. Having had bad experiences with both companies drive failures over the years. Mostly my fault because I was not really backing up all stored data.
100% agree, it's just with my limited budget at the moment this is a good price for a good drive.
I have the opposite problem - plenty of bays but buying 8+ large drives at once is very expensive.
If it's a Synology Hybrid setup then you can just buy/expand over time which is what I'm planning to do.
Nah, I have a 24-bay white box server with 8-drive RAIDZ2 pools running ZFS.
I can replace the existing 2TB disks one at a time but I won't see the benefit until 8 have been replaced.
Got one. Not very excited about the price though, previous one had for $15 cheaper late Jan 2018.
Sucks how SSDs are coming down in price and these are going up.
Need 4 for a new NAS setup, just grabbed one for now as its the cheapest around. Hopefully we'll get a cheaper deal soon.
Black Friday Deals are soon.
I bought 3x 4TB so I could set it up in RAIDZ1.
need 2 for NAS
Then get the WD Reds, may be a few more bucks then these Seagates, but much more reliable.
Cheaper to buy external drive then shuck it
very different quality drives tho
They're not designed to be run 24/7 with a lot of vibration from other drives. Also, the shucked 4TB ones are SMR drives.
It's a good price even if you have to pay the shipping fees if you are NOT a Ebay Plus member for $158.15 .
Similarly, Amazon Prime customers can get this same drive for $161.22 AUD and only drops to $155.57 AUD if you use cashback (3.5%, Cashrewards/Shopback). But you would have to wait 3 months for the cashback. This also doesn't factor in the shipping from the US to AU so for a few bucks more I'd pay locally.