WTB: Lot of 4 indentical drives 3TB or greater

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EDIT: NO LONGER LOOKING, DEAL HAS BEEN MADE WITH A HF MEMBER. THANKS TO ALL!

I just bought my first NAS from Synology DS918+.

I am looking for drives to put into it.

My wife agreed to the unit......I figured standard HDDs would be fairly thee cheap....meh....I was wrong.

So I'm looking to see what the used market has to offer outside of ePay.

I will be using it to store streaming media like 1080p video, images, and MP3 music....not a whole lot more.

No plans to raid it, just drop the disks in and have it use the defaults and act as my DLNA server with maybe Serviio on it or if their onboard media delivery is good....then that.

So with that, I'd like to have 4 of something IDENTICAL part numbers/size drives for those that have upgrades to 10TB and such.

Please advise what you have, cost, general time on the drives.......I understand data center drives are abused, so trying to avoid that, I prefer to have NAS type drives over conventional if possible.

Thanks,
Chris

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EDIT: My shipping zip is 02864
 
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SamirD said:
I have some greens that came with a nas I got and they had a hella lot of power on hours and were still working well. Depending on how much they've been used, they could be a really good deal.

I'd also check out these enterprise 1TB drives melk has. Some have extremely low hours which will mean they'll last nicely:
https://hardforum.com/threads/fs-10x-1tb-wd-black-enterprise-hdd.1991496/
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What is the size of the greens you have? How much are you asking? TY.

I looked at the thread, 10 is to many and I'm really looking for a 9-20TB solution if possible within the 4 bays.

Chris
 
kittmaster said:
What is the size of the greens you have? How much are you asking? TY.

I looked at the thread, 10 is to many and I'm really looking for a 9-20TB solution if possible within the 4 bays.

Chris
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Oh I didn't mean I was selling them, but I've seen greens last in a nas environment. (y) Gotcha on the drive size requirements. (y)
 
ssnyder28 said:
I have 3x 3TB WD Greens if you're interested - $125 shipped
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I will keep this in mind, still sorting through a bunch of great options

ChefJoe said:
I would avoid those 3tb models for any irreplaceable data though. I've had one in my DVR that keeps adding a few uncorrectable blocks every few months and keeps having to run a new surface error check. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001
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Strange.....I have a 3TB drive and it's been fine......SMART showing no bad sectors......but sample of 1.....LOL

Thanks for the heads up!

Chris

Still looking at all options.....thanks to all who have responded.
 
4x 2tb WD REDs available here, $130 shipped. SMART checks out, 3 years powered on, mostly just sat in a server with very little write activity.
 
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PMed you but no response. I have 4x4TB HGST CoolSpin for $200 shipped.
 
Thanks to all, struck up a deal with a member here for 4x 10TB drives.

Thanks to everyone who provided up solutions/offers.

Regards,
Chris
 
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