Deals thread...?

[the86d]

I haven't priced platter-drives in a while, but $49 for...
Seagate BarraCuda ST2000DM008 2TB 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive:

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822184773

Looks like the data sheet shows sustained@220MB/s

Not a bad, deal, if you are in the market, it seems from a glance.

Goes off-sale Friday.

[ibanezfoo]

Only one problem. Its Seagate.

[the86d]

Its not an MFM or an RLL drive...
I've wiped data-in-tact Seagates that are 15-20 years old...

[Robotron2k84]

[the86d]

I just got my first M.2 512GB 970 Pro.
We'll see how long it lasts.

My 256GB Sandisk has been chooching along (~50% capacity) for like 5 years,
<10% (wear-level the right term on SSDs?).

[Dragunov]

Not bad for a mechanical drive. Would be good for data storage, but not for the inside of my computer.

[Dragunov]

^^This!

I have two, W540's with two of these same SSD's each. Got them on special off Ebay for $99/each, so I bought four of them. Same place was selling the SAME drive, in 500gb size for $55/each. Bought four of those too. GREAT deals!

[MrFancyPants]

Only one problem. Its Seagate.

Yep.

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[bacon_lover]

I have about 12 Seagate Ironwolf drives of varying capacities (10-16TB) running and have yet to experience any failures. *knock on wood* I previously bought HGST drives since I had heard they were more reliable, but 3 of them failed in the past year (one was DOA right out of the box).

If you're looking for cheap storage for a NAS, I'd recommend getting the WD Elements drives and shucking them. They go on sale periodically. The 10TB version was just under $160 a few days ago.

[Dragunov]

I'll go along with shucking a WD external drive. However, I have lots of spin drives of 2tb<. A lot of them are Seagate, and have served me well. I'd say, over the last ten years, Seagate isn't any worse than any other spin drive.

SSD's are still too pricey to use as high capacity storage drives, and spin drives are cheap, and reliable enough, still. Especially, if you're just using it lightly, as for backup purposes. For that, I don't see a problem with the Seagate drive you're looking at, although it's suspiciously cheap for some reason.

[ibanezfoo]

I just got my first M.2 512GB 970 Pro.
We'll see how long it lasts.

My 256GB Sandisk has been chooching along (~50% capacity) for like 5 years,
<10% (wear-level the right term on SSDs?).

We've used those 970s since they came out... I have about 30 in production. Not a single failure yet. Of course that probably just jinxed me.... great...

[ibanezfoo]

I'll go along with shucking a WD external drive. However, I have lots of spin drives of 2tb<. A lot of them are Seagate, and have served me well. I'd say, over the last ten years, Seagate isn't any worse than any other spin drive.

SSD's are still too pricey to use as high capacity storage drives, and spin drives are cheap, and reliable enough, still. Especially, if you're just using it lightly, as for backup purposes. For that, I don't see a problem with the Seagate drive you're looking at, although it's suspiciously cheap for some reason.

Interesting stats:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2018-hard-drive-failure-rates/

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/

[bacon_lover]

Interesting stats:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2018-hard-drive-failure-rates/

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...stats-q2-2019/

Yep, I used BackBlaze's stats to infer brand reliability, since BB uses enterprise/datacenter drives and not the exact HGST 10TB NAS drive model I deployed. That didn't work out too well for me, but thankfully I did not lose any data.

I've since switched all my NAS units to RAID6 or 1+0 due to lengthy rebuild times.

[Dragunov]

Interesting stats:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2018-hard-drive-failure-rates/

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...stats-q2-2019/

Just been my personal experience. I haven't had any trouble from my Seagate drives.

[ibanezfoo]

Just been my personal experience. I haven't had any trouble from my Seagate drives.

I wish I took pics of the stacks I had at my last job. About waist high and 7-8 wide of dead Seagate drives, with some IBMs and Fujitsu’s in there too. These were dead server pulls though, generally 15k SCSI drives. That was around 2011 though, not recent. My own experience though with external drives at work is basically 100% failure with the Seagate drives people have bought for various reasons. But it’s a Ford vs Chevy argument... everyone has their own experience.