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Those big drives are great if you've got limited storage slots in your NAS. I have 14 HDD bays in my rackmount case, and if I throw a lone…

Great drive. Run my 12TB one 24/7 in a Silverstone FS305B-12G enclosure. Runs a little hotter than my helium filled Exos, but within safe…

20k hours is nothing for Exos drives, they'll give you another 50k hours over that, easily. My actual brand new 10TB Exos drives cost me…

This. These drives should be in an array with parity drive/s. My 2x10TB Exos cost me $700+ brand new - so the fact you guys can get these…

And I bet it'll run you another 30,000 hours

15-17,000 hours is nothing for these drives. Got some with 50,000 going strong.

Nothing wrong with Seagate Exos. Only bad experiences with Seagate for me was back in 2009-2010 with the 7200.11 desktop drives. I run…

Cool story. Seagate Exos have been fine for me. Have multipled shucked Barracuda Pros with 5 years on them without any issue. Generally if…

eh, I've done it before. And just ordered a used X570 off there to replace a B550M in a secondary UnRaid build. Risk is worth it. Although,…

Ordered one (well when it was $150 from another seller). I built an UnRaid AM4 build with a 5600+B550 Pro4 motherboard and 64GB of ECC ram.…

HDD are very much alive for NAS/Server storage. Wouldn't use it as OS/Game storage, though.

I'm assume you were downvoted for thinking someone would regret buying one of these things. Once you buy one - you typically want to buy…

I use mine as a Plex Server - since I usually run AMD CPUs in my servers. Intel QuickSync helps.

On the contrary - as long as you don't have an MSI AM4 motherboard, you can slot in ECC ram with your 5800X. It's what I love about the AM4…

Try reading the reviews before worrying about 2.5 stars. Only two people have rated - 1 did 1 star with no review - 1 did 4 stars with the…

Exactly. My BQ12 had Windows removed shortly after I unboxed it and I installed Debian-headless on it. I Tailscale into it and use Ansible…

Why would you use the preinstalled OS, lol. My BQ12 came with Windows - I got rid of it right away. Price on BQi went back up to $570,…

Beelink EQi12 is $405 at Amazon Aus. - Intel Core 1220P (10C/12T up to 4.4GHz), 24GB LDDR5 RAM 500GB I'd probably go that over this one.

Beelink EQi12 for $405 looks pretty damn good, ngl

It comes with Windows, which you'll be getting rid of if you have any senses. Never just use a preinstalled OS out of the box, especially…

I use an EQ12 as my Plex Server and simply have my media stored on an UnRaid server and connect it to the EQ12 via an NFS share. No need to…

Get the EQ12, then. 2x2.5GB ports. They work great.

Yeah, EQ12 is the way to go. Love the DDR5 + 2.5GB Lan ports. I don't think the EQ13/14 make any sense. They're like a downgrade.

First thing I did when my EQ12 arrived was get rid of Windows and install Debian. It's the only way.

Get the BQ12, it has DDR5 and 2x2.5GB Intel ports.

I don't understand the dumb naming schemes they use. The BQ12 has DDR5 and 2x2.5GB LAN ports. No way I'd go the BQ13/14 over a BQ12.

This. I only bought an EQ12 for intel quicksync. Everything else is handled by my various AMD machines.

Tempting. Think I'll be going the Philips Evnia 49M2C8900 49", though. Just need the kvm/productivity benefits. If this was bigger, I'd be…

It's normal.

No. Seagate exos and datacentre drives are naturally noisy.