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Seagate Exos 16TB Enterprise HDD X16 SATA AUD $686.02 Delivered from Newegg

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hawamahal on 02/05/2020 - 09:11 newegg.com (496 clicks)
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Seagate Exos 16TB Enterprise HDD X16 SATA 6Gb/s 512e/4Kn 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3.5" Internal Hard Drive ST16000NM001G

Coming to $686.02 delivered to Sydney. Probably same everywhere else.

Never used this drive, but the specs look good. Bought one for my NAS.

Much better pricing than local pricing.

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  • congo on 02/05/2020 - 09:19
    +4

    10 and 12TB better value

  • shole on 02/05/2020 - 09:21
    -1

    Do companies still use traditional hard drives?

    • Diji1 on 02/05/2020 - 09:29
      +3

      Yes.

      And tape is still very popular because of price.

      • terrys on 02/05/2020 - 09:35

        Disks are RAD, tapes are SAD. Quite alright for back-ups and imaging, but not as entertaining to watch now we don't use banks of 10" reels…

    • bchliu on 02/05/2020 - 09:46
      +2

      I can't imagine Amazon, Microsoft, Google all using Exabytes of SSD storage for their cloud services. Can you?

    • hawamahal on 02/05/2020 - 09:58

      Not available now and also this link is Pre Covid i.e. the prices have generally gone up since.

  • asa79 on 02/05/2020 - 09:41

    This is tempting, 6 of these would be nice for a 80TB NAS

    • Dingleberry on 02/05/2020 - 09:53

      Is 80 a limit? Doesn't 6 x 16tb = 96tb?

      • Skramit on 02/05/2020 - 09:58

        You lose 1 disks worth for parity in RAID5 or RAIDZ 1

        • fluberries on 02/05/2020 - 10:10
          +9

          You lose 6 disks buying Seagate

          • justtoreply on 02/05/2020 - 10:21
            +2

            @fluberries: Lol

          • HiredGoon on 02/05/2020 - 10:43
            +1

            @fluberries: I have probably 6x Seagate/Samsung HDD's, not one has failed over the 6 years I've been using them.
            In that same period I've had about 4x WD HDD's handed to me by friends/family asking whether I can fix or recover anything from them.
            Small sample pool, but tbh, I'll be sticking with Seagate until further notice.

            • Skramit on 02/05/2020 - 11:01
              +6

              @HiredGoon: I think this issue comes up over and over.

              If you look at Backblaze…. both WD and Seagate have had issues on various drives over the years. But still the failure rates are very small 1% or 2%.

              https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html

              There's also other factors like heat, vibration, spin up count, always on, quality of power supply etc etc which varies from PC to PC.

              In summary it's really just pot luck whatever brand you choose. Everyones experience varies.

              • Click_It on 04/05/2020 - 09:18

                @Skramit: HGST or Toshiba (or an enterprise WD/Seagate such as this Exos) if you want to step up in reliability (and price)

          • luffyex2010 on 06/05/2020 - 11:53

            @fluberries: Is it that bad?

      • photonbuddy on 02/05/2020 - 10:13
        +2

        Not sure I'd want to risk so much data with only 1 parity disk though.

        I suppose it depends on what you're storing. If it's just p0rn and downloaded TV/Movies, it might be ok, but if it's critical business stuff, having the extra disk might be a good idea.

        • justtoreply on 02/05/2020 - 10:23
          +1

          Really? Keep a spare on hand not enough?

          Taking two drives out of a piddly 4 bay nas (which most here would have) leaves no space

          • coxymla on 02/05/2020 - 11:54

            @justtoreply: Gonna take freaking ages to rebuild a 16TB disk.

          • photonbuddy on 02/05/2020 - 12:49

            @justtoreply:

            Taking two drives out of a piddly 4 bay nas (which most here would have) leaves no space

            The guy was talking 6 drives, so they don't have a 4 bay. 1 drive from 4 is probably OK. 1 from 6 is starting to push the friendship.

            • justtoreply on 02/05/2020 - 12:57

              @photonbuddy: True. But youre still spending $2100 to only get 16tb when you go from 3+1 (my seutp) to 4+2 (his).. that kills me.

        • Smigit on 02/05/2020 - 13:53

          I think one parity drives fine for most users. Id concentrate extra redundancy (and associated costs) on automated off site backups rather than over investing in on prem. That’s assuming we’re talking home use or very small business.

        • asa79 on 02/05/2020 - 17:42

          depends on how long it take to replace it

        • asa79 on 02/05/2020 - 17:43

          i run single parity raid setups now with no issues with 6 drives in each and 1 ssd cache drive

      • asa79 on 02/05/2020 - 17:41

        5 and a parity

  • guidedlight on 02/05/2020 - 10:22
    +1

    This looks like a good hard drive, as it does not use the slow (and controversial) shingled magnetic recording (SMR)
    Avoid WD Red drives for this reason, but this particular drive is good!

  • cynix on 02/05/2020 - 10:59
    +1

    I bought a bunch of the older generation model (Exos X14) last year, no issues so far. These drives run pretty hot though.

  • justtoreply on 02/05/2020 - 11:02

    Did I read somewhere that enterprise drives continue on their merry way when a consumer drive would error out? Meaning you can lose data integrity and not know

  • charng on 02/05/2020 - 11:21

    it is enterprise level so i guess it is not SMR then?

  • nkahoang on 02/05/2020 - 12:21
    +6

    I got one of this when it was ~ $630 with Amazon, so I can chime in my experience:

    • Awesome storage space. Got tons of Linux ISOs on that one.
    • It is decently fast being 7,200 rpm and not SMR. I once got Plex/Infuse running multiple 4K streams from those ISOs sitting on the drive and it's smooth. Definitely not going to bottleneck your Linux ISO media centre. I only filled up the first 2 TB however so I can't say about its performance yet when it's close to full.
    • It is LOUD (expected being an enterprise drive). If you have it sitting in a NAS/Computer next to you, you will definitely notice when it's being read/written to. So don't put it in a computer close to your workspace / bed.
    • Skramit on 04/05/2020 - 08:48

      It is LOUD (expected being an enterprise drive). If you have it sitting in a NAS/Computer next to you, you will definitely notice when it's being read/written to. So don't put it in a computer close to your workspace / bed.

      Thanks for this feedback, exactly why I will not buy one then :D

    • whirlpool_guy on 04/05/2020 - 15:19

      Does it run hot? Thanks

      • nkahoang on 04/05/2020 - 16:13
        +1

        Nah it does not. It runs pretty cool and I have a pretty standard cooling setup.

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