paid for 2X14 TB Thanks for confirming
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Paid for one Seagate 16TB. Thanks @@aasimenator
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@@b.life has backed out, @@haraakiri wants 3-4 drives so 2 x 16TB drives are now back on sale. can be purchased directly on the website linked below or through DM here.
~~2 x [16TB HDD](â
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3 x [14TB HDD ](â
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**Poll is now live - to get an idea of how many people want drives and of what capacity so I can import accordingly. Select the Size and then Select the brand. donât select multiple sizes.
I still have 3 x 14Tb HDD available, want to get rid of them at the earliest possible, So I am pricing it aggressively at Rs. 13500/- each ONLY **if someone wants to buy all 3
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Get me 3 WD HC510 10TB.
paid for 3x14TB drives.
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Interestingly, 12-14TB category seems to be not as popular as 8-10TB & 16-18TB category. Many ppl who have quite large amt of data usually got 4TB internal &/or 4TB portable external hdd during low price era of 2019-2023. I would assume that such ppl would buy large internal capacity hdd to transfer data from all those drives for consolidation or backup in which case having 12-14TB makes more sense as it is a bigger multiple of 4 with around 2TB space remaining compared to 8/10TB which would be filled with two 4TB hdd with around 2TB space remaining. 8-10TB hdd are best suited for those who currently have a single 4TB hdd (internal or external). Running multiple hdd also add to electricity cost so it is always better to buy such large capacity hdd in a manner that will cut down your existing running hdd setup by at least half. It is also suggested to have backup in a different drive if data is important & not easily reobtainable & for such large drives the backup drive needs to be equally large unless getting such drive simply as a download dump for easily reobtainable media.
The reason for not opting for a bigger drive than 10 tb might also have to do with how much free space is currently available for folks vs how much time they think they will need to fill up that space based on their past utilisation rate. If that time is quite long (say more than 2 years), it might not justify buying bigger drives now with limited warranty, as the drives may fail by that time (not saying the drives are in bad shape), resulting in unnecessary expenditure that could have been avoided.
I have no complaints about the health & warranty vs pricing of the drives on offer here, and frankly, itâs really good. This is just a possible explanation to justify the demand pattern.
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I bought the 14tbâs , I am doing soem future planning but considering I will run these on a NAS which has the ability to go standby when not uses my wear and tear may (note the may) let me use the drives for a few more years by which ssd tech would have matured to better TBWâs
Unfortunately with todayâs planned obsolete approach we will need multiple storage medium to retain.
I am not a cloud fan as I donât see them as value for money ( I do have cloud storage also) so continuing to spend on internal HDD makes sense to me
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Just a note that aggressive standby options can hurt enterprise grade HDDs rather than provide any benefits. Theyâre built to be continuously running, and not spin up and down very often.
For me personally, Iâve a 20TB raid array built using 2TB disks that I got for very cheap, I just want to replace those with 3 or 4 10TB ones. With my hoarding nature, I can easily fill up 20TB in a few days or weeks, but then again, a lot of those arenât needed, so it should be good enough for me for at least the next few years.
I, too, am looking to upgrade to all flash once it becomes a viable alternative. I love HDDs and the engineering that goes into it, but I also just want some reliable storage that can last me some time lol
That said, my HDDs have been working for like 6 years now, and only 1 has failed. So I consider myself lucky haha
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Isnât that normal? Most drives either
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die in the first year
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survive for 8+ years
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will you do bulk pricing anytime in the future? letâs say 10 22tb drives? not committing to it now but I do have a home server build for media consumption/seeding in planning stages, will be sure to hit you up if you do so
Paid and received a 16TB hdd.
Packaging was decent.
Doing a preclear on Unraid to test the drive. Seems to be going well.
Thanks @@aasimenator
Anecdotally, yes!
My oldest HDD is 20yrs old and is still working lmao
The 2TB drives I got 2nd ownership as well, they had been used a lot.
However, reports from BackBlaze always say otherwise. But of course, theyâre on a totally different scale than me. Leave being on the same page, we are probably not even inside the same book lmao
Doesnât mean I donât love reading statistics about their HDDs tho
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IMO 12+ gb is for peeps who like to simply downloads dumps of movies and music just for the sake of satisfaction with 80% no real-life practical usage.
I was also in that category long time ago but then realized its all nothing but just a moh-maya.
These days its quite easy to find almost everything on the net that too in a matter of a few clocks so dumping job s well under control.
In my situation, I need a 8-10tb to sum up all my scattered data across multiple 1 and 2tbs into a one single drive while resting the same data on those disks just for those uncertain scenariosâŚbackup!
Another situation is for storing/backing up photo/video memories on an additional internal backup media as internals are way to easy to play with during a data loss etc.
Also, it makes no sense to invest in multiples of huge TB drives category just because you are getting it at a throwaway rate, as its not a mutual fund to give guaranteed returns. Always better to opt for small drives, in fact I will stress on the factor that buy what how much you need TODAY as disks are fragile and using your excess bought 14tb drive after 10yrs isnât going to guarantee you the same performance or /and by that time technology would have changed for a better and hanging on old school methods might make no sense.
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I always do bulk pricing, whether you are buying now or later, whether itâs a tiny pc, SSDs, or HDDs. The difference is what is considered bulk, I believe any one purchasing more than 5 items of the same would be treated as bulk and yes bulk discounts are possible.
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Agree though my post was more about ppl consolidating data from older multiple 2/4TB drives.
It depends a lot on luck which also incl operating conditions. Btw, just curious what is the longest running power on time you have achieved on your drives. For me the record is approx. 80000 hours.
Agree but many incl myself need such drives to consolidate data across multiple internal/external hdd & as for backup, the chances of those external portable 4TB drives going bad is likely more than internal 4TB drives because of the cooling factor & the inherent nature of usb connector/port.
That⌠depends. In our job, we had to do a lot of analysis, with source data being around 12TiB, but while uncompressed and joined in a way that made our life easier, it could easily balloon to well over 70TiB. We used to run 5x 20TB Segate drives on RAID 0 over the weekend for it to complete lol
Ofc, you could just run it/use it while itâs compressed as gz, but that also meant it would take far longer.
That aside, older movies. Itâs hard to find them. Much less in DVD quality. It makes sense to save them, data hoarder or not. Or movies in your local language. Itâs not *moh-maya *imo.
I want to get back into archiving, but itâs too much effort and Iâve got too little time. Maybe tape or DVDs someday haha. Or who knows, maybe the laser-etching glass thing really becomes a reality.
Funny story. One of my drives had its SMART data flip-flop somehow, and it showed power on time of like 150+ years iirc lmao (itâs also the drive that failed).
That aside, I have a 160GB Seagate HDD that has over 1 lakh power-on hours, last I checked. Itâs somewhere in the house, no longer used. It was in use till 2019 as a raw volume drive for VMs haha
The rest are mostly around 500 days power on when I bought them, and then mostly running for 6 years. I donât really check SMART data, just when I get notified via mail that something has troubles writing/reading sectors.
Though, if I were to guess, the highest power on time would be for the CCTV drives. Theyâve been running continuously since god knows when. At least 10 years now. By the way, 10 years back is 2015, not 2010 
ob:
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@@aasimenator Maybe you should spin off a thread for just storage/NAS discussions.
Take me back.