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Yeah, $800 isnβt a small chunk of change, but for a hard drive of this capacity, itβs monumentally cheap.
Nah, a 24TB is $300 and some 20TB's are even lower $ per TB.
I paid $600+ for a 24 TB drive, tax free. I feel robbed. Although I'm glad not to shop at Newegg.
Yes, fuck Newegg (and amazon too). I've been using B&H for disks and I have no complaints about them. They have the Seagate Ironwolf Pro 24TB at $479 currently, but last week it was on sale for $419. (I only look at 5yr warranty disks.)
I was not in a position to take advantage as I've already made my disk purchase this go around, so I'll wait for the next deep discount to hit if it is timely.
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Omg I really have been out of the loop. I originally filled my 8 bay NAS with 6tb drives starting back in 2018. Once they would fill, i added another. 3 years ago, I finally ran out of space and started swapping out the 6tb for 10tb. Due to how it works, I needed to do 2 before I saw any additional space. I think i have 3 or 4 now, and the last one was 2 years ago. They did cost around $250 at the time, and I think i got 1 for just over $200. The fact that I can more than double that for only $300 is crazy news to me. Guess I am going to stop buying 10tb now. The only part that sucks is having to get 2 up front...
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It will take about 36 hours to fill this drive at 270mb/s
Thatβs a long time to backup your giraffe porn collection.
What kind of degenerate do you think I am? Thatβs 36 hours to back up my walrus porn collection.
How did you know about my giraffe porn?
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That's a lot of porn.
And linux distros
Just say it's full of porn, it's easier to explain
Always keep an nsfw tab open to swap to so your family doesnt see you on the arch linux wiki.
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I wanna fuck this HDD. To have that much storage on one drive when I currently have ~30TB shared between 20 drives makes me very erect.
Average Lemmy user
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Defragmenting...
Man, I used to LOVE defragmenting drives. I felt like I was actually doing something productive, and I just got to sit back and watch the magic happen.
Now I know better.
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Seagate so how long before it fails?
In my experience, not all Seagates will fail but most HDD's that fail will be Seagates.
About 3 hours.
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Do you need it? Probably not. Do you want it? Oh, yeah.
I feel seen
I'm amazed it's only $800. I figured that shit was gonna be like 8-10 thousand.
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no thanks Seagate. the trauma of losing my data because of a botched firmware with a ticking time bomb kinda put me off your products for life.
see you in hell.
I can certainly understand holding grudges against corporations. I didnβt buy anything from Sony for a very long time after their fuckery with George Hotz and Nintendo's latest horseshit has me staying away from them, but that was a single firmware bug that locked down hard drives (note, the data was still intact) a very long time ago. Seagate even issued a firmware update to prevent the bug from biting users it hadnβt hit yet, but firmware updates at the time werenβt really something people thought to ever do, and operating systems did not check for them automatically back then like they do now.
Seagate fucked up but they also did everything they could to make it right. That matters. Plus, look at their competition. WD famously lied about their red drives not being SMR when they actually were. And Iβve only ever had WD hard drives and sandisk flash drives die on me. And guess who owns sandisk? Western Digital!
I guess if you must go with a another company, thereβs the louder and more expensive Toshiba drives but I have never used those before so I know nothing about them aside from their reputation for being loud.
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Yeah, but it's Seagate. I have worked in data centers, and Seagate drives had the most failures of all my drives and somehow is still in business. I'd say I was doing an RMA of 5-6 drives a month that were Seagate, and only 4-5 a year Western Digital.
Is that just observational, or did you keep track? Backblaze does track their failures, and publishes their data: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2025/
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Sorry but without a banana for scale it's hard to tell how big it really is
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This hard drive is so big that when it sits around the house, it sits around the house.
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Me who stores important data on seagate external HDD with no backup reading the comments roasting seagate:
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Pretty sure I had a bigger hard drive than that for my Amiga. You could have broken a toe if youβd dropped it.
Great, can't wait to afford it in 60 years.
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