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Time to upgrade my storage

BubblyCharizard
By BubblyCharizard
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Well it's time to get a new Mechanical HDD for storage

 

I have some really old drives here......

2TB WD green - bought in 2011 Retiring this one soon (heck its only sata 3GB not even 6GB)

This one has even been powered on for over 7 years.....don't wanna risk losing that much data

 

1TB WD green - bought in 2009

640GB WD Blue - late 2009 early 2010

500GB - early 2008

these 3 got replaced with a Seagate 4TB drive

 

has anyone seen any good deals on 4-6TB drives recently 

 

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Most 4TB drives are roughly the same price, at around the $100 mark. 

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yeah that's what I thought was hoping I might have missed one on a great sale

3 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Most 4TB drives are roughly the same price, at around the $100 mark. 

 

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25 minutes ago, BubblyCharizard said:

yeah that's what I thought was hoping I might have missed one on a great sale

 

Could try your luck with sh-something external drives

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9 minutes ago, Supportsneedlove said:

Could try your luck with sh-something external drives

naah…..they really aren't that good to cannibalize as an internal HDD

 

 

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12 minutes ago, wojtepanik said:

current seagates aren't really reliable, get WD

I have seagates in my surveillance system at work and have no issues.

 

I can't complain as I usually have my mechanical storage in active service for 6-8 years worth of power on time. I've never had a drive fail though.....maybe its just that I take good care of my hardware, and replace it when I notice signs of slowdowns or other issues

 

 

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19 minutes ago, BubblyCharizard said:

I have seagates in my surveillance system at work and have no issues.

 

I can't complain as I usually have my mechanical storage in active service for 6-8 years worth of power on time. I've never had a drive fail though.....maybe its just that I take good care of my hardware, and replace it when I notice signs of slowdowns or other issues

 

 

I work in CCTV company and we ditched seagates for WD only :P I proccess over 100 hdds a month in diffrent configs/raids

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8 hours ago, wojtepanik said:

I work in CCTV company and we ditched seagates for WD only :P I proccess over 100 hdds a month in diffrent configs/raids

I guess you got unlucky.....in reality most modern hardware is fairly reliable with only a few outliers

 

 

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