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That's kind of what I'd be worried about with these as well. That said, normally you would get something like WD Purple drives for recording I think. I'm not sure if these enterprise drives are actually intended for recording. 5 year warranty sounds nice, but... having to replace a drive just sucks, 5 years or not. I think these would be great for setting up a new NAS with RAID 6 or something. I guess finding some old motherboard with 8 sata ports lying around, and then for $800 you would have an 84TB raid 6 array?
Nice. Someone on SD posted the code of YUSPGINTDM77PD7M
Theres always a risk with hard drives, new or used. One with 5000 POH could last another 10 years or a brand new one could fail within days. I guess good strat is to do research on statistics, always backup and keep a cold spare or two on hand for a raid. Yeah replacing drives sucks but I guess thats life.
Friends don’t let friends shop at Newegg. If it were eBay or directly from the ghd website I’d have bit.
That could be the best bang for the buck drive so far on this thead. Its not Ikasu's fault that newegg is a POS mothereffing sellout to china.
There's an uninformed idiot in every thread. Or a troll.
My take on it is such: Said poster has actually made some good posts over the years. If you want to troll or be trolled take it to genmay as if you so much as burp or fart in there its to be expected. Its different when posting in a category where people might consider spending their hard earned money.
Eh, it depends on your needs. I doubt the cache difference makes any real difference anyway.
Yeah, depends on your needs for sure. I had an 8x 4TB raid6 (26TB) of toshiba drives for many years, 0 problems. Ran from an areca somthing er other 8 port. Its in storage now. I was proud of that baby, was the real deal. raid6 or not that sucker did sip up some juice.
Yep that's a deal that I saw on STH when I posted this one there.
Not too bad either since they say the smart details are intact and they've tested them and they're zero defect, and there's a 1yr warranty to boot. Decisions decisions, lol.
Make sure you do a through testing, at least ghd will refund/replace at no cost. Doing a data dump to drive 2 for the full 10tb (or 9.whatever after formatting), 7 hrs remaining, no problems yet. I have my raid and nas but thats not for what I had these intendend.
Sorry to hear man. I am guessing they're just letting users be the test dummies. 90% will be just fine and they pocket the profits. The ones that have issues they'll just gladly take a swap out and trash that drive. Kinda sucks.
Sounds about right. Guess Ill figure out what is to process tomorrow with the new business day. Im not mad, sh!t like this happens. If anything its a reminder in both humility and how important redundancy and backups are, which is the whole point of me getting some more drives.
That's what I run in my unraid box + a cold spare.
RMA is quick and simple, I had one die a month later, they replaced it and it's been perfect.
Bummer. How was the packaging? Any way that the drive was damaged because of shipping?
Did you also buy enterprise drives? Or no? Surprised you needed to deal with the Power Disable mode. I bought a 16TB Enterprise drive and hoping I do not need to do that for it to work in my NAS.
Yes, said drives on original post, HGST Ultrastar 10TB SATA HUH721010ALE601. They are a bit old but they are enterprise drives. I did not need to deal with the power disable mode / use the cable, just mentioned it in that I tried it while grabbing at straws wondering what was wrong with the first drive. The 2nd one works fine in an enclosure and direct in a modern system without it.
Consumer drives are rarely 7200rpm anymore, that makes a difference for sure. If ghd had really quiet slightly slower consumer drives for the same price id prolly opt for those.Bummer. How was the packaging? Any way that the drive was damaged because of shipping?
And enterprise drives are built more 'heavy duty' so they make sounds. And they're beefy sounds because of the beefy guts. Desktop drives are like silent mice, but so is their strength.
I'm curious on how they are packed. Drives not packed correctly have a very high probability of outright failure at power up or dying very prematurely. They should be packed like you're shipping eggs!
I agree and that's why I was curious how it was packed. I think most drives die this way vs any other.
I have to admit that the packing was actually quite decent. When properly powered off HDD heads are parked. I think they are more resliant in shipping than some might think. While powered on, Ive read the analogy that a HDD head above a disk is the equivelnt of an F16 jet flying at mach2 10 feet above the ground.
I suspect this to be more the case, but since I have only made one purchace I guess I dont have much of a pool to make a reliable assement.
I just had to requote this a 2nd time as the more I think about it, the more I think you hit the nail on the head.
It good to know I might be on the right track. It only dawned on me as I recalled my own experience with high doas when I had an auto parts distribution where some parts were high doas like that. We didn't get them all the time, but we could eat them if the price was cheap enough (these weren't though so we stopped buying from the high-doa supplier). But if they were as cheap as the 'pizza box' civic radiators that were $25 our cost that we sold for $100 retail, yeah we could have eaten a few if we were bankrolling on the rest.
