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Speaking from experience, don't get Seagate. Western Digital is better. I've been collecting movies for 15~ish years. My array is 65TB with 4000 movies. All WD EasyStore and MyBook. Seagates just aren't reliable enough over long timespans.
I hope you’re seeding
Ive found seagates to be more unreliable than their competitors as well.
What is the actual hard drive model inside?
IME these are always either Exos or Ironwolf Pros
They can just keep changing their minds about what they put inside as long as it meets the level of performance advertised.
Most likely whatever drive that didn't pass testing to be sold as full retail.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/146hb9k/information_about_cmr_to_smr_manufacturer/
This is player price.
Player price? What does that mean?
Hmm it’s $199 where I am. How do you get the $50 off?
by being a Costco member in their region
Yeah, same here 199$. They recently put the 8TB on sale in my store, 99$, bought quite a few of these to shuck.
Do they make 14tb smr’s?
Why no such deals in EU :(
Taxes
thank your government for that
Solid price per TB
There have been a lot of sales on the Seagate drives lately. Maybe people are getting tired of the noise. When my sons tower is running, I can hear it from outside his door. I'll stick with WD.
That's one of the ones I have. It's lasted since 2020 in top condition so far, the only issue is that it vibrates my table a little whenever I access any new file.
Extra amazing colour, friend.
almost jump to costco website and realize it is costco.com and not costco.ca and planning to return the one i purchased at bestbuy for $240 cdn
Get a NAS.
This is the drive I previously posted about earlier
love these have 3 already and they are magnificent same price as op. actually 129 each before taxes
What drive came in yours?
I saw an ad on Facebook for a 4tb nas for 50 bucks. It's a Lacie with dual 1gb Ethernet and yeah it's a 4tb alright. Idiot selected maximum security storage and had it mirror 4tb 8 times. Also has 4 USB ports which I added another 2 4tb to. That I already had. This was 6 months ago and ive filled up all those 36tb and another 40tb. Then I have a 4tb+2tb+ the 2 SD card slots have 1tb+1tb so 8tb in my little handheld and I don't want to admit what I have in my desktop. But I got a good deal on USB C 1tb SSDs and bought more then all my fingers and toes worth. Everything is 95% or more full.
Should I get help?
When is this deal supposed to start?
I have the Costco flier advertising the 14 tb seagate drive and it says the deals are for members 11/21/2023-12/17/2023 on the front of the flier.
How reliable are the seagate 14 tb externals?
I usually get western digital externals never bought a Seagate external.
Are these 14 externals shuckable? Probably won't shuck them since I can't buy 6 but I hear they making it harder to shuck. My last buys for recertified enterprise drives.
I've had two Seagates fail within a couple years, they're notorious
I'm not expert, but.. If you want to hoard data and not really use it, it's good choice.. Also Seagate gives 2 year warranty and I some models they offer free data recovery in case of damage
I will never buy seagate again. Every one Ive had has died within 2 years. Toshiba makes good ones, ANd Ive had a few WDs for many years now
Decent price. Probably not the fastest drive but just for movies, should be fine
If that drive crashes, you will lose 14TB of data :(
This is always my thoughts but if you bought 2 and always made a duplicate then could be worth it
That’s why you buy two!
I would just make sure that I don't store anything important on it. But since it is so big, it can even double as a backup drive for the main system.
That's why I've stuck to floppies! Gotta keep your individual losses low amiright?
Like in any other case.. Gosh.. You've reminded me of my old optic discs.. Hope they won't root much
