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.
I know you swiped on that image, too
Yes. It’s better to wait and get new drives with a full 5 year warranty on sale than to get these refurbs now.
These were $275 a few days ago. Wait for the price to come back down
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 ^ _ ^
How many are you buying?
Fyi theses are the same exos disks for $180-200
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 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.
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.
