Newegg HDD sale

[Russell Coight]

I'm in Australia so hard to compare but looks like a pretty good deal to me.

HGST DeskStar NAS 3.5" 6TB 7200 RPM 128MB - $199

 

[BigDave]

Yes! Newegg is stackin' em deep, and sellin' em cheap!
I bought two of these today, with the email promo code
discount of $11 each, they were a steal @ < 0.03 per GB

I'm aware these are not NAS drives, but some times we need
drives for desktops too :p

 

[cobrakiller58]

Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5'' HDD 8TB 7200 RPM 284.99 see reasons like this is why i'm occasionally annoyed being in canada.

 

[Chris Moore]

Yes! Newegg is stackin' em deep, and sellin' em cheap!
I bought two of these today, with the email promo code
discount of $11 each, they were a steal @ < 0.03 per GB

I'm aware these are not NAS drives, but some times we need
drives for desktops too :p

If you are willing to put a little work into it, these are the best price around for 4TB drives..
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178741

 

[Chris Moore]

Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5'' HDD 8TB 7200 RPM 284.99 see reasons like this is why i'm occasionally annoyed being in canada.

You might want to give these a try. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16822178951
I am using a set of the 5TB drives in my FreeNAS system to backup my primary pool and they are great.
Just takes a little effort to get the drive out where you can use it...

 

[cobrakiller58]

I'm pretty sure those have seagate archive drives in them which are SMR

 

[Chris Moore]

I'm pretty sure those have seagate archive drives in them which are SMR

Not the ones I shucked. They were regular Seagate Desktop drives.

 

[Chris Moore]

Yes! Newegg is stackin' em deep, and sellin' em cheap!
I bought two of these today, with the email promo code
discount of $11 each, they were a steal @ < 0.03 per GB

I'm aware these are not NAS drives, but some times we need
drives for desktops too :p

Also, you might check these out: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178994
I have some of the Toshiba drives also, but I like the diagnostic data from the Seagates better. It has more detail. Until recently I had 12 of the Seagate 2TB drives in each of my two servers. I recently replaced 7 of the ones in the older server with the Toshiba drives and they work fine but I don't care for the way the SMART data looks.

 

[cobrakiller58]

barracuda..... who owned that name before was it maxtor?

 

[Chris Moore]

barracuda..... who owned that name before was it maxtor?

Seagate has been making the Barracuda since around 1991. I remember ordering the 1.5 inch thick SCSI 9GB models for our servers back around 1999 and later upgrading to the 1 inch thin 18GB models.

 

[BigDave]

Not the ones I shucked. They were regular Seagate Desktop drives.

I'm too lazy to get the drives out of the cases they come in, besides
that I worry about the drives having weird firmware and being less
than Grade-A quality.

 

[Chris Moore]

I'm too lazy to get the drives out of the cases they come in, besides
that I worry about the drives having weird firmware and being less
than Grade-A quality.

The ones I have shucked are the same firmware as the retail (OEM) drives I have purchased and have been working flawlessly. I will probably do it again when I need more drives.