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!
These days the Black Friday sales are just returns to regular prices after pre-BF hikes.
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.
What even is a renewed hard drive though…
I got some 18TB X20 refurbished drives for $180 recently. They have a warranty from both eBay and my credit card, so gave them a go. Looks like they ship to Canada.
How many are you buying?
What do you store that needs that amount of data?
My guess would be Linux ISOs ^ _ ^
I know you swiped on that image, too
A Renewed Hard Drive? Strong pass 😅
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.
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.
https://waterpanther.com/search?type=product&q=20tb
I bought several HDDs from Water Panther. Took a little while for the package to arrive in Canada, even though they ship from California and I’m in BC. No problem whatsoever with the drives, and they were the cheapest I could find.
These were $275 a few days ago. Wait for the price to come back down
Does anyone other than me think large drives (multi terabyte) is to big of an egg basket?
Or am I just old?
I will warn you… Exos drives are LOUD.
Maybe it’s because I’m old, - they don’t seem any worse to me than a typical drive of the 00’s. And certainly nothing like anything we heard in the 90’s.
