I know everybody is drooling over the Seagate 26TB external at BB hoping it contains an Exos drive and not a Barracuda one. But if you are up for a refurb drive with a 5-year warranty, GoHardDrive has some MDD brand (MaxDigitalData) drives that are Enterprise/NAS/Surveillance class for $260. These are clearly rebadged Seagates--I'm guessing the Enterprise one is the Exos line (probably an X20), the NAS version might be the equivalent of an IronWolf (Pro?) or Barracuda line, and the Surveillance drive if probably the SkyHawk line.
Here are the three drives:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167386842829 ("Enterprise", model MDD22TGSA25672E)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167386766672 ("NAS", model MDD22TGSA25672NAS)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/176934538400 ("Surveillance", model MDD22TGSA25672DVR)
I literally just had two X16 16TB drives delivered today else I'd be jumping on this.
Some folks might have concerns about refurb vs. new drives, but many have had fantastic luck (including me).
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I'm hoping it's a sign of prices coming down so I can start stocking up again, but if you need it now, I'll go for it.
Here's a link to a Seagate X20 enterprise class drive so you can read the blurbage:
https://www.seagate.com/content/d...-en_US.pdf
And here's one to a Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS drive for comparison:
https://www.seagate.com/content/d...-en_US.pdf
I'm hoping it's a sign of prices coming down so I can start stocking up again, but if you need it now, I'll go for it.
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I would consider $7.50/TB with the 5 yr warranty. Anything with a shorter warranty would make no sense.
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I'm hoping it's a sign of prices coming down so I can start stocking up again, but if you need it now, I'll go for it.
I would consider $7.50/TB with the 5 yr warranty. Anything with a shorter warranty would make no sense.
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I would consider $7.50/TB with the 5 yr warranty. Anything with a shorter warranty would make no sense.
5 years = 24 x 365 x 5 = 43,800 hours
This is only a fraction of the 2 million so these drives still have a lot to give!
Check over in https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ if you are concerned about factory-recertified enterprise-class drives.
Drives like these are going to be some of the only ones you can buy knowing they probably weren't used in a Chia farm.
All the 10,12,14,16TBs run a very high probability of being abused in a farm
I'm hoping it's a sign of prices coming down so I can start stocking up again, but if you need it now, I'll go for it.
I should have bought more of those but assumed there would be a $10 cheaper deal 6 months to a year later. Egg on my face.
I hear you, I'm in the same boat, it has almost doubled in price in about 9 months
What's worse is I have a brand new NAS to fill with drives. And my others are all at capacity with a under 1tb of available space 😂
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I got excited for that thread when it triggered my alerts, but alas, none of mine do. So we wait.