A few days ago, I noticed someone posted a similar question about a specific hard drive on this subreddit. Sadly, I haven’t received any responses about their experience. So, I’m hoping to get some advice from the community on whether anyone has dealt with the seller I’m interested in. I’m in the market for reliable 18 TB drives to upgrade my media server and NAS backup.
I got some new IronWolf Pro series HDDs when there was a good deal on Newegg for $340 Canadian, as I didn’t want to pay full price. However, I’m looking to save some money here and there, though I understand that some might not agree with that. I’ve already spent most of my budget on setting up a strong system for my storage and services.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, especially if you know of options that work well for Canadians or are available from American companies, with the caveat of dealing with import fees. Thanks in advance!
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A classic move for Black Friday is that retailers will mark up to mark down. If you like the price for this, I say go for it.
These days the Black Friday sales are just returns to regular prices after pre-BF hikes.
I just shuck WD Easystores, they’re so much cheaper. Got my 5x 14TB’s for $179/ea a year or two ago. Curious to see what the Black Friday sales will be on 18’s. With the difference in price, if you’re buying a few, you can just grab a few more and shelve them until a production one craps out. For a media server, they’re probably fine. If you’ve got serious data, then maybe the white labeled Red drives aren’t the best? I dunno. Never had issues. https://shucks.top/
Amazon prices are higher on Black Friday
I’ll never trust an HDD again.
Checkout EastDigital on eBay. I get brand new 16TB Exos drives for $320nzd, around $190usd.
Be careful with EMC drives. A lot of them have firmware that only allows them to work in an EMC system.
“Amazon renewed”
Considering Amazon’s spotty track record when it comes to hardware, I wouldn’t be eager to jump on that one.
In Germany you get 18 TB drives for 200 € as new ratet. https://www.ebay.de/itm/185843432850?hash=item2b4521bd92:g:CgUAAOSwRwhkLSbF&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4C63RBB7xEUNxgjk1qlSZ%2B9PikFu2mX0t87JWtCPdG9qO81Nj4KC%2FzQwzkIHIZ%2F4lc2jXM2e%2BgdAsPZsRmaTgbV3Gti8T%2B7dyMzm0Qr0OUaQH4N6ylAJmgieR5ICBz1x46j%2Bc5i8tNVcyR4%2FJcuEWylPf5skMRYg3atID2v0VMxJ2uLVkrWcMsbSbVm5hPzpHlDAQ6I4aVfASZO8X7cv7QHsHbR22bKkvnZ4%2FR%2FqA3PrI4JYaMsHCZ%2B8h6QiJ0TimVhRHrgCYbStJp2Bau8aAjKC8BVb91x8nIXKLgtVBODu|tkp%3ABFBMkMuhrvZi
I would avoid vendor branded drives like this, they may be running custom firmware. They’ll probably work, but may not - it’s a gamble.
What do you store that needs that amount of data?
My guess would be Linux ISOs ^ _ ^
Fyi theses are the same exos disks for $180-200
The idea of putting all of my faith in one drive, with that amount of data on the line, scares the living daylights out of me.
I agree. Not one drive alone. Need to have a RAID array.
These were $275 a few days ago. Wait for the price to come back down
