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Spacious 24TB hard drive is available for a mere 1 cent per GB [$10/TB] — Seagate's BarraCuda 24TB is back on sale for $249 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 11 months ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/datahoarder@lemmy.world

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How are Seagate drives these days? I stopped buying them about a decade ago after having several fail and looking up statistics that showed they were significantly less reliable than the other brands.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago (4 children)

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So it looks like my policy of "only buy Western Digital" is still the right one. But what's happening to HGST?

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

They got bought out... By WDC.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Wow I've been buying WDs for years because I have never had luck with others. Glad to see there's an actual data point for me and it's not just anecdotal.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Weren’t they also the ones that just broke up a massive counterfeiting ring of refurbished drives being passed off as new? Wonder if that contributed to their bad failure numbers.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for sharing.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm running 4 20TB barracudas i got last summer in a RAID 10 for my truenas. I'd do it more efficiently if I had planned with enough space to move the data and redo the RAID, this raid has existed for almost a decade. It's reliable, used daily (24/7 uploads in soulseek), currently sharing out 36 TB of movies/music/tv series around 1TB data upload per day.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

If you go with the higher end Ironwolf drives, they're supposed to be alright.

But this ain't that. You tend to get what you pay for, and a 24TB drive that dies before I can fill it isn't on my shopping list.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I have 4 or 5 Seagate ironwolves (~20 tb each) in my NAS and they've been great but they're hard drives. I don't have the data on how they'll fair long term wise.

I need to move from my Synology NAS to something custom built so I can do a better raid set up that lets me use my full drives instead of just the amount equal to my smallest drive.