Not horrible at $26.93 per TB for Aus stock.
The below deal was $24.95 per TB, though I couldn't bring myself to spend $500 on a hard drive/14TB is still a huge amount of storage for most people.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/881942
Imagine trusting all your data to a single point of failure.
What you're describing is most people.
whats a good basic backup plan… nas + google drive is all I have atm
Buy two!
That's my scenario but I actually had some kind of arguments with a user here saying that HDD fail "two at a time, it can happen and it will". Literally.
Buy three!
My case scenario would be as a backup drive for a NAS if you didn't want to spend it on another NAS (Like in the Synology eco system). A cheap backup solution.
seagate.. also external drive so probs 5900rpm
They used to be 7200rpm EXOS inside, but haven’t bought one in over a year.
can these be shucked?
Absolutely.
Bit fiddly to get open but inside is usually a 7200RPM Exos which is an Enterprise grade HDD. Use to buy the 16TB ones which had them inside but that was a few years ago…not sure about the current batch but would expect them to be the same.
damn getting a 7200rpm at this price is a steal!
I miss the days when people were shucking these.
I still do for WD drives :)
Rather buy from SPD etc these days the shuck has little value apart from the occasional sale.
Do SPD ship to Australia? I always assumed it was US only.
Whats SPD?
How about east digital HK?
I bought 2 of these a year ago, if I remember correctly they are exos 2x14. But who knows with current batches.
Do people still use these spinning external hard drives and especially ac powered in 2024? Bring back the memory when gifted a ~100GB - huge in both weight and size but pretty large storage at the time - not very reliable tho.
They are DC powered.
DC powered ever since the late 1980s mainframes :-)
Something like this is a lot more cost effective than a NAS for things like a PLEX setup, if you already have a suitable computer. In my case, I have a Dell micro form factor PC that can only take an internal SSD and M2.
Same and I have 2 hard drives sitting on top of my dell micro :)
I think Nas drives come with more warranty. USB drives are not recommended by some software. For Plex, should be ok.
We are one of a few countries that get Three Year Warrnty on External drives if you don’t shuck, or are expert at it. Anything over 10TB is likely to be a high end drive. Seagate and to a lesser extent WD have rationalised their drives and while the label may be different, if you are getting a EXOS drive, then it’s 7200 RPM CMR/PMR helium filled drives with usually 1 million hours of MTBF. WD still put some 5900 RPM drives on their cheaper externals like the Elements drives, but go for a My Book and you’ll get a 7200 RPM Enterorise drive inside. The models for WD are a bit hard to tell, but they have different firmware on their externals - I’d prefer WD myself but with the amount of EXOS drives people have bought from SPD and while most are still less than three years old, no failures yet afaik.
If you Can get an WD UltraStor DC drive manufacturer refurbished, it’s likely got a new spindle motor.
This info comes from friend in the USA who has bought 6 x 16TB EXOS and 12 x Ultrastor DC 18TB drives - most came with a DOM of either 2021 or 2022. However the last batch he purchased was either March or May this year. He hasn’t had any failures on the SPD manufacturer refurbished drives so far. Has them all running in a 16 bay version of an older version but higher spec QNAP TVS-1655 except it’s got Dual Xeon and he blew away the QNAP software and put on TrueNAS Scale. He has money to burn.
He bought a 6 bay expansion unit earlier this year to put in the 6 x 18TB drives.
Nice to live in a state with No Sales Tax and earn over USD 300K.
But back to that Seagate 14TB - it’s cheap for current Australian prices but 14TB are an bit old hat these days. Most SMBs and Data Centres are apparently using 16TB/18TB/20TB in the enterprise arena so he tells me.
I am sure that manufacturers will concentrate on higher capacity storage as much as possible. Especially when cheapie 2.5” 4TB drives are actually more expensive than they were ten years ago.
Shuck or not, if you don’t need more than 14TB, leave it in its case and both WD and Seagate give you 3 years warranty on new externals and only 2 years on new bare 3.5” but AUD price is way too high.
It's possible to run out of USB resources adding external drives. USB hubs with switches are awesome. Ask me how I know. :-)
You can use this to back up a NAS.
Let us know when a 14TB SSD is the same price and people might switch over.
I still use my ones. I have a few powered 1TBs which are used to hold a second copy or single copy of less critical data. I threw away a few power adapters to save space. I use them so rarely it's barely a concern.
Lotta eggs in one basket, I would rather have my 2 5gb external hdds
That's a couple of small eggs you've got.
As long as his wife is happy.
Lol I meant tb…
Been quite sick lately my head is so all over the place.
I would rather have 28 500gb drives - am I doing this right?
Potentially an enterprise Exos Mach x 2 14TB drives based on some quick reddit searches. But could be anything…
10% off departments other than computers and phones. Coupon expires 11:59PM AEDT on 11/12/2024.
aside from price, what are the benefits of getting one of these compared to a portable drive? Looking for something as backup solution, but only have around 2-3TB to backup. thinking this might be overkill
Future proof in your case, organisation & the quality of the HHD. Reports suggest this is a Seagate Exos, which is a line of enterprise-class hard disk drives.
2-3TB drive you will have full already. Then data spilling over to multiple drives if you can't fit it onto the 2-3TB drive.
HDD like this could be seen as a good option for longer term backup & data storage.
For data storage I would put:
Optical media > HDDs > SSDs
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Pros to all, and a Multi-layered storage solution, a combination of storage methods can be good.
I would not use this in the original enclosure, too many single points of failure to risk for so much data. If the enclosure fails (hdd working) you will not be able to recover your data by simply taking it out and putting it in another enclosure or a pc as the controller board on the enclosure encrypts the data.
Surely that can be disabled?
Can you remove the drive from it?
Did you know that about 180 of these equal to 1 human adult brain?
I need to upgrade the storage on my backups drive. this is very tempting :D
Good deal. Got x2 today and have already shucked them. Can confirm they are Exos 2X14 mach2 drives.
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Imagine filling this with whatever file and then it breaks down