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  • #31
    mrdd
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 2023

    I just replaced a bad drive in a NAS and picked up a 12 TB IronWolf PRO for $332.99. I thought it was not a bad price. The bad drive is in warranty, so I plan to get it replaced.

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    • #32
      Gun Kraft
      Vendor/Retailer
      • Jul 2014
      • 804

      Why did you pick the IronWolf Pro over the Exos? 1.2m MTBF compared to 2.5m, and an 18TB Exos is only $60 more. Or put another way, 50% more storage and 2x the reliability for 20% more money.



      SF Bay Area firearm training
      www.gunkraft.com

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      • #33
        tuna quesadilla
        Calguns Addict
        • Apr 2006
        • 5147

        I bought a bunch of 4TB IronWolfs (IronWolves? Lol) in June 2020 for $100.99 for a homebrew NAS; they're now $104.99 on Amazon. Doesn't seem to much different now? Have prices stabilized, or is 4TB no longer in vogue?

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        • #34
          mrdd
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2009
          • 2023

          Originally posted by Gun Kraft
          Why did you pick the IronWolf Pro over the Exos? 1.2m MTBF compared to 2.5m, and an 18TB Exos is only $60 more. Or put another way, 50% more storage and 2x the reliability for 20% more money.



          https://www.seagate.com/files/www-co...06US-en_US.pdf
          Yes, I am aware of the Exos. I stuck with the IronWolf Pro because I was replacing a failed drive and I needed it to work in the NAS, and the extra capacity wasn't necessary.

          I will evaluate the Exos drives in the future.

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          • #35
            Puss
            Member
            • Mar 2013
            • 216

            I wonder how much space the Calguns site takes up, if they have to expand every 6 months, what it takes to run this place.

            A little bird told me it was running on a raspberry pi in Kestrel's basement using 3 1/2" floppies.
            An armed society is a polite society. ~ Robert Heinlein

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            • #36
              gcvt
              Orlando, Florida
              CGN Contributor
              • Apr 2008
              • 13602

              Originally posted by gcvt
              I've had my eye on the 2TB Samsung T5 for travel. A couple of months ago it was $230. Last month it went to $250. Now it's $335. Guess I shouldn't have waited.
              Allow myself to quote....myself

              Ordered today for $219. Didn't think I'd see that price again.
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              I am NOT...anything other than a schmuck...

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              • #37
                OlderThanDirt
                FUBAR
                CGN Contributor - Lifetime
                • Jun 2009
                • 5779

                Originally posted by the86d
                OMFG!
                What type of pr0n are you making, where you need that much storage on a notebook?!
                I used to use a laptop for navigation, satellite imagery, a magnetometer and multibeam sonar. I would barely get by with a 2 tb SSD and a large external drive. I eventually had to use two laptops to efficiently process and display the data. High resolution imagery is extremely data intensive.
                We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying. ~ Solzhenitsyn
                Thermidorian Reaction . . Prepare for it.

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                • #38
                  crufflers
                  I need a LIFE!!
                  • Jul 2011
                  • 12723

                  I think CHIA fizzled so aren't hard drives like a dime a dozen now?

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                  • #39
                    blockman35
                    Junior Member
                    • Nov 2021
                    • 9

                    Had to remove the one from my old system and i got a case to it. It works perfectly.

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                    • #40
                      crufflers
                      I need a LIFE!!
                      • Jul 2011
                      • 12723

                      Originally posted by mrdd
                      Yes, I am aware of the Exos.
                      IRON WOLF sounds cooler.

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                      • #41
                        glassparman
                        Senior Member
                        • Aug 2012
                        • 697

                        Hmmm, takes me back. When I first started my computer career, MFM and RLL Drives were still in use (this was when IDE was just entering the market).

                        When the Seagate ST412 10 meg, full height, 5 1/4" drive was introduced, it was like $1200.

                        I still remember paying a dollar a meg for IDE drives before enhanced IDE so that was when they were limited to 512mb or something like that, memory is failing me now. That was around 1994 or so. Yeah, a 100mb Seagate drive was just over $100 bucks.

                        I actually can't complain, I think drives are cheap compared to their data size.

                        Just my 2 cents.
                        sigpic"There is no greater feel than to be in control of 56 tons of steel and watching that 105mm round go down range and blow something up."

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                        • #42
                          Gun Kraft
                          Vendor/Retailer
                          • Jul 2014
                          • 804

                          Originally posted by glassparman
                          Hmmm, takes me back. When I first started my computer career, MFM and RLL Drives were still in use (this was when IDE was just entering the market).
                          This reminds me of that "So you live in a house?" Deadpool quote. Putting aside cassette tapes as storage, how about DECtape for a PDP-11? Not quite punch cards but not too far off. Good memories.
                          SF Bay Area firearm training
                          www.gunkraft.com

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                          • #43
                            glassparman
                            Senior Member
                            • Aug 2012
                            • 697

                            Originally posted by Gun Kraft
                            This reminds me of that "So you live in a house?" Deadpool quote. Putting aside cassette tapes as storage, how about DECtape for a PDP-11? Not quite punch cards but not too far off. Good memories.
                            When I went in the Army in 1981 I as supposed to work on the FADAC computer. It's test machine used a paper tape reader. What a piece of junk.

                            Oh, I still have a Muntz 4-track and lots of tapes in my '62 Fairlane.
                            sigpic"There is no greater feel than to be in control of 56 tons of steel and watching that 105mm round go down range and blow something up."

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                            • #44
                              MrFancyPants
                              Senior Member
                              • Jun 2017
                              • 1160

                              Originally posted by crufflers
                              I think CHIA fizzled so aren't hard drives like a dime a dozen now?
                              I haven't heard anything about CHIA lately so it's possible. Wonder if that means I can score a lot of "barely used" hard drives for cheap from those who bought a ton, if seeding is no longer a thing.

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                              • #45
                                crufflers
                                I need a LIFE!!
                                • Jul 2011
                                • 12723

                                I remember Zip drives, Travan, DLT, lots of slow tape drives before all the Synology stuff and Terrastations.

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