Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB $468.11 (2 for $444.70 each with additional 5% discount) Delivered @ Amazon US via AU
Cheapest historically on CamelCamelCamel, https://au.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0B94MRX2H
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Someone posted a trick to getting the 5% by adding another qualified item (~$17), better than not doing it if you only plan to buy one drive…
Cheapest historically on CamelCamelCamel and the cheapest per drive, but not the cheapest for 1 drive on OzBargain.
I actually bought two of these for $888 at the end of last year from Amazon, but they were the last two in stock, so i guess nobody saw it then. Both drives were trash and got a refund.
What are the chances of this drive being dead from Amazon's well known poor packing practices for hard drives?
quite high from what i've read which is why i paid more and bought elsewhere …
That's basically what I have read too. Makes me wonder why anybody actually buys them.
We don't know if it's true though, it's scared me off but as no one has taken a picture with good packaging it's become gospel on OzBargain
Bought two WD RED from Amazon US last year. No problem at all.
I bought 4 16TB ironwolf's from Amazon via Amazon US 2 months ago. 3 DOA, and the 4th was ticking like crazy. I would avoid.
Its not the packaging. It was well boxed and secured. Never had an issue with Amazon drives before and I've bought many from there. I had to return both of these 18TB drives due to disk errors, extremely low speed copying and the drive going to sleep when in use. One drive also reformatted itself. Many people have complained about the same issues all over the world. Its Seagates poor QC, the reason why these drives are cheaper than others.
Thanks for the heads up… glad I didn't nab two of these. Did you opt for WD Gold instead?
I'll probably just continue getting the WD Ultrastars maybe in 20 or 22tb. Unless theres a good special on the Gold. Only went for 18 cos of the good price but was wary of Seagate. Should have trusted my instincts. Theres also been a few ozb's that have had the same issue with these ironwolfs.
Seagate Exos are relatively cheap. Native 4k drive (needs initial formatting though). 5y warranty as well.
I'd grab the 18TB WD external, they survive Amazon shipping much better and it's $8 cheaper
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Has anyone used it with Synology NAS? Cannot see it in Synology hdd compatibility list and Google says it won't be recognised.
If true, that's some BS. Standards like SATA exist for a reason and that is that if the drive, storage controller and drivers all follow the standard, then it will work. Not like Synology would make anything themselves either. Off the shelf chips and their OS is Linux based. A warning telling users the the drive is untested and they may experience issues, sure, but blocking it from even working? Sounds like pure money grabbing, although I'm sure justified in terms of user experience. Not like just because a drive is compatible an individual drive can't have issues though.
Did some reading myself and unless it is on the incompatibility list, then it is unverified, not incompatible and it will be recognised, but you will get a warning and no SMART data, etc. Also it seems that they update the lists (as in not just adding new drives as they come out), so a drive could possibly even move from compatible to incompatible. In such a case, if it was already in use, you could continue to use it, including importing into a new/replacement NAS, but presumably you would also lose features. Seems like that would be an avenue to move from unrecognised to a warning though, assuming there is a way to trick the NAS into thinking it was previously used in another Synology NAS.
$26.01/TB
$24.71/TB when buying 2x